Clarion 1983-05-13 Vol 58 No 29

Students gathered in Kresge Courtyard to watch and dance to the music of Rock-a-Mole
Copeland/photo
A sculpture by Kent Ott received damage at an outdoor senior art
exhibition. Woodward/photo
Students, administrators
call for lifestyle talks
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Tandals victimize artists' work
by Lynnette Monter building. "They ruined my
senior show," Steinbach said
Three outdoor sculptures of the vandals.
exhibited for the senior art Kent Ott, the other student
exhibition were vandalized on whose exhibit suffered dam-the
weekend of April 22. This age, said, "More than the ob-exhibition
is a requirement —jects were destroyed; there is
for graduation. The equival- more behind the sculpture
ent of the destruction of the than the material."
art sculptures was that of Ott's sculpture, a three-di-tearing
up a senior thesis mensional piece that changed
paper or destroying a chem- almost every day, was located
ist's experiment. "It's very between the sidewalk to the
similar to sabatoge of a term seminary and Lake Valentine.
paper," said artist Ken Stein- The vandals apparently used
bach. a knife to destroy the piece
and then dragged the wooden
"The vandalism destroyed pieces to Nelson dorm. "It
four years of my work," Stein- was very valuable to me be-bach
said. His steel sculptures cause it was a new form of art
were destroyed after four long to myself," said Ott. "It was
years of production. They not public property—the ar-were
located behind the AC tist is still there," he said.
Tom Toperzer, associate
professor of art, said Paul
Drake, director of auxiliary
services, is in charge of com-pensation.
He will handle all
the insurance problems.
In the future, the art depart-ment
plans to use the Clarion,
other publicity standards and
possibly a chapel service to
educate the Bethel commun-ity
before any works of art
are exposed to the public,
Toperzer said.
The vandalism of art van-dalizes
the artist, he said, and
the destruction was likely the
result of a group who did not
understand the piece. "Wheth-er
you like it or understand it
is irrelevant; it is personal
property and should not be
destroyed."
Protest, frivolity generate conflict
by JoAnn Watkins
"It was a nice spring day
(May 9), a good band, a lot of
music, and the pressures of
the last two weeks of school,"
said Charlie Retts, dean of
men. Forty to fifty students
were dancing in Kresge Court-yard.
"I was wondering what I
would do," said Jerry Manus,
member of the band Rock-a-
Mole. He said the band start-ed
their third song when peo-ple
began to dance. "We just
kept playing. I didn't want to
quit before our show was
over," Manus said. Though he
said he did not know what
would happen, he said he
knew people had been talking
about plans to dance.
"I talked to some people
before that afternoon, and I
knew they were planning to
dance," said Ellen Wootten,
one of the students who was
dancing. "After a while it was
just kind of spontaneous."
"What happened was an un-fortunate
display of inappro-priate
behavior on the part of
all involved," said Steve Good-win,
student association presi-dent.
He explained what hap-pened
in terms of pressures
building up and the dancing
providing a way to "blow off
some steam."
"What I did was wrong,"
said Goodwin. "I do apologize
for it. I was not setting a good
example and I should have
been. Bethel's values are arti-ficial
to me for the four years
I'm conforming my life to
them. There's a conflict be-tween
what I agree to for
dancing, see page 4
by joAnn Watkins
Bethel has always had a life-style
standard. "Lifestyle stan-dards
are one important way
by which any Christian insti-tution
expresses its distinc-tive
educational program,"
said Dean Dwight Jessup, at
the chapel service on May 10.
"They constitute one very
legitimate element by which a
college establishes its own
identity," Jessup said. "We
must live with integrity and
honesty in references to Beth-el's
stated lifestyle guidelines
to which we are committed."
After the "public dancing
incident" on May 9, students
expressed opinions which re-flected
the idea that the life-style
standards are dated and
need to be examined.
"I think there needs to be
more dialogue about that life-style
and why it's there," said
Charlie Retts, dean of men.
"I wish this would wake up
the community to see the prob-lems
with attitutes," said
Mark Boyer. "It depends on
whether the administration
wants to put God before the
almighty dollar."
"I believe the administra-tion
has been looking at the
issue," said Greg Hamann,
director of residence life for
management. "It takes time to
change and it's not good to
change things the first year of
a new presidency."
"The safest thing to do is
not change and sometimes peo-ple
need to be pushed," said
Hamann.
"We need to be careful how
we react," Kathy Sanderson
said. There is a distinction
betWeen what we are sup-posed
to stand for and what
we actually stand for." She
said she wished there was not
a difference between the two.
"I think something needs to
be done within the system
that we can support whole-heartedly,"
said Sanderson.
"It's sad we don't have stand-ards
that people who are doing
the enforcing can stand be-hind."
"The bottom line," said
Retts, "is that there is a lot of
misunderstanding about life-style
and the administration
that can be helped through
communication."
"The complaint is real," he
said. "What are we really
going to support?"
"It's very possible that the
idea of dancing is not a corn-lifestyle,
see page 9
College's diversity
brings new experience
The last editorial. So many thoughts cross my mind.
Another year draws to a close. For many of us it is a time to
say good-bye to Bethel. It is saying good-bye to people we
may not see again. There is the uncertainty of the future.
And there is a reflection of what the time we have spent at
this place called Bethel has meant.
There is not a simple answer to what the semester, year or
years have meant. Bethel is something different to each of
us. And we each bring something of ourselves to Bethel.
As an incoming freshman four years ago I could never
have guessed the experiences in store for me. I quickly
learned that everyone did not have the same views as I did.
My "Christian" views at times even conflicted with those of
my professors. There is diversity of religious beliefs, family
background, economic levels, political views, level of matur-ity,
reason for coming to this college, and moral standards. I
was smitten, but I learned a great deal from those around
me.
I soon realized that I would not like it if we were all car-bon
copies. We need to have different values and goals.
The future lies ahead with something different for each of
us. For some it holds more schooling. For others it is the job
market. Still others will find themselves travelling. We must
take our own dreams. Accept responsibility for our deci-sions.
Follow the course where ever t leads.
Through our experiences we grow -and from our relations
with those who have had different experiences we grow still
more. Diversity is not something that needs to be remolded
for a uniform individual. We are a diverse people. We need
to accept that fact and learn how to grow with one another
through that diversity.
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the Clarion, opinions, newsbriefs may 13, 1983
Graduation festivities begin
at 10:15 Sunday morning, May
22. President George Brush-aber
will bring the Baccalau-reate
message in the Robert-son
P.E. Center.
Commencement exercises
start at 3 p.m., also in the
gym. The Commencement
speaker for the class of '83 is
Dr. Robert Mounce, president
of Whitworth College in Spok-ane,
Washington.
Mounce takes the theme of
his address from I Peter 4:11-
"By His strength....for His
glory."
New Testament scholar and
author as well as educator,
Mounce taught at Bethel from
1958- 67; for nine of those
years he chaired the depart-ment
of biblical studies here.
He has also served as mis-sionary
pilot in Guatemala.
Dr. Robert Mounce
Following Commencement
an outdoor reception is sched-uled
for 5 p.m. on the campus
lawn.
****
"Poor Man, Rich Man"—a
multi-media one-man show
based on the life of St. Francis
of Assisi—will have its Twin
Cities premiere performances
at Bethel on May 19-20. Pari-sian
Michel Orphelin, an in-ternationally
acclaimed drama-tist,
incorporates mime and
monologue in presenting a St.
Francis who poses a chal-lenge
to our world today. Cur-tain
time is 7:30 p.m. in the
To the Clarion readers:
It seems to surface over and
over again each spring term—
the destruction of art pieces
on campus. Each time I am
deeply disturbed that it hap-pens
here. It may not always
be a deliberate enraged at-tempt
to discredit the artist. It
may simply be an adolescent
frustration at the end of long
Minnesota winters. Maybe we
need to haul an old car onto
campus and provide sledge-hammers
for those who need
to work out frustrations. But
the disturbing fact remains
that in the absence of an old
wreck to pound, someone at-tacks
a work born out of the
imagination and creative pro-cess
of some Bethel commun-ity
member.
It is a sickening travesty in
a "Christian community."
Where, more than in a place
which calls itself Christian,
should the individual imagi-
Fine /kits Theatre. Tickets are
$6 for general admission and
$2 for student rush 15 min-utes
prior to the performan-ces;
call 297-9313 for reserva-tions.
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nation be celebrated and af-firmed
by us all? Each formed
expression is evidence of that
person's uniqueness and her/-
his endowment of creative ca-pacities
by the Creator Him-self.
Where, more than here,
should we be able to accept
differences and newness of
life (as each piece is a new
creation born out of the mind
and heart of the artist.) It is.so
hard to respect one another?
To praise God for varieties of
vision? To learn about unfam-iliar
things instead of sense-lessly
destroying them out of
fear?
Even if the act of destruc-tion
grows out of some juve-nile
spring frustration, let's
realize what shocking and an-ti-
Christian forms it takes—
here where we should rightly
be celebrating the act of crea-tion.
Barbara Glenn
Assistant Professor in Art
Community
thanked
for support
Editor's note:
This letter, received by Dean Jess-up,
is forwarded to the Clarion for
publication as the message is for the
community. Michelle (Shelley) Bak-ker,
a freshman student, was injured
in an automobile accident at Thanks-giving
and has been hospitalized
since that time.
Our family would like to ex-press
our sincere thanks to
the administration, faculty,
and students of Bethel Col-lege
for all the love and con-cern
you have shown us since
Shelley's accident last fall.
We greatly appreciate all the
prayers that have been offered
on our behalf.
When we were looking for a
college for Shelley we were
interested in a Christian col-lege
but needed one that of-fered
a nursing program. We
were very glad when we dis-covered
that Bethel had what
we wanted. Shelley was hap-py
at Bethel the few months
she was there. We are still
glad she was able to go there
as she was part of a loving,
caring community of beauti-ful
young people, and she
made many good friends. Her
roommates at Arden Hills
West and some other students
have been very faithful in vis-iting
her when she was at
Hennepin County and also
now at Gillette. We felt that
God had led us to Bethel and
our experiences since then
prove to us that it was the
right decision.
We don't know what the
future holds for Shelley but
we are still praying for a good
recovery. We have certainly
learned to rely and lean on the
Lord for the strength we need
each day. It has been a long
hard winter and an experience
we will never forget. She is
making great progress so far.
She is able to talk, remembers
most of the past, and is now
better able to relate to the
present which is so impor-tant.
Right now she is having
trouble with making good judg-ments
and I understand that
that is a common problem.
For months she was unable to
move her right arm or leg but
both are improving slowly.
We are able to bring her home
on weekends which she en-joys
so much. She is very anx-ious
to walk again but for
now has a hard time with
balance. She has a cheerful
attitude and is working hard
at her therapy.
Thank you again for every-thing.
Sincerely,
Mr. & Mrs. Dick W. Bakker
Vandals' destruction
a sickening travesty
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"Oh yuck, these are Deb-bie's
hot dogs from that party
she had three months ago, I'm
not gonna touch them."
"Our kitchen floor hasn't
mopped all year, why do they
make us do it now?"
Sounds like this will per-vade
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* * **
"Thursday's kick-off is going
to be bigger. It's going to blow
the parents aw'ay because it's
really good," said Dave Thor-ton.
Thorton and Lorraine Heif-ner
are coordinators for Wel-come
Week 1983.
The staff of 46 plus the
coordinators have been busy
making plans for next Sep-tember.
"I'm very excited,"
said Heifner, "It's gonna be
good." They have planned a
full schedule beginning on
Thursday with helping the
students move in to a pro-gram
Monday night.
Lorraine Heffner, Dave Thorton
"I think Welcome Week gives
parents and students a more
positive outlook," said Heif-ner.
"They have activities,
something to think about
other than classes."
Both Heifner, a sophomore,
and Thorton, a junior, have
served on Welcome Week. The
coordinators are chosen by
the coordinators of the pre-vious
year.
May 18-23 as RAs and ADs
check residents out of their
dorms and apartments. The
check-out includes a list of
things that need to be cleaned
in order for students to leave
without any extra charges.
Rooms not cleaned to satis-faction
will result in charges
being added to individual ac-counts.
If no one roommate
(CPS)—President Reagan's
proposed Education Savings
Account—introduced to en-courage
parents to save for
their children's college educa-tion
and initially hailed as a
good idea by college lobby
ists—apparently is a dead is-sue
now.
The proposal is "going , no-where,
and has no chance of
ever going anywhere" in Con-gress
now, higher education
lobbyists in Washington say.
The plan would have al-lowed
people to put money
away in a special college ac-count,
and then spare them
taxes on the earnings from
the money set aside for col-lege.
"There's simply no real en-thusiastic
support for it
among higher education
groups," reports Eric Went-worth,
vice president of the
Council for the Advancement
and Support for Education.
claims responsibility the cost
will be split between them.
This also pertains to damage
done to furniture and the
rooms themselves. RAs and
ADs will be responsible for
levying fines.
"Ninety percent of the time
the amount listed on the check-out
list will be the amount
charged to the student," said
Hamann, director of resident
life. "And 70 percent of the
time there is no charge at all."
Since parts of Fountain Ter-race
and most of Silvercrest
will be rented out this sum-mer,
the apartments must be
clean enough for others to
move in. Cleaning crews check
over each room after the
school year, and any extra
costs incurred because of stu-dent
negligence will be added
to students' bills.
Students are encouraged to
check out within 24 hours of
theirlast final. Everyone must
leave by May 23, no excep-tions.
When leaving, students
must return their keys or pay
a $5 fine.
"Most people feel it offers
little incentive, and that if it
passed it could be used later
by the Reagan administration
to justify further reductions
in financial aid," he adds.
President Reagan proposed
the Education Savings Ac-count
in early February as
part of the 1983-84 higher
education budget. At that
time, rumors around Washing-ton
had it that the ESA would
essentially be a carbon copy
of the popular Individual Re-tirement
Account, which al-lows
people to write off con-tributions
to the account and
earn tax-free interest on the
money.
As it stands now, however,
the administration's ESA
would provide tax-free earn-ings,
but no tax deductions
for the amount contributed.
savings, see page 1
Education savings proposal
lacks "enthusiastic support'
may 13, 1983
the Clarion newsbriefs page 3
STAIIICN by Marty Stanchfield
The rain had no effect whatsover on the rock. The ocean, on
the other hand, had continually shaped the rock over the years.
The rock was hard and the rain could not penetrate its surface.
The rock knew the ocean well and would often times seek its
counsel. The ocean spoke to and shaped the rock. It kept
raining, but the rock was not open to the voice of the rain. One
day the rock spoke to the ocean out of confusion. "Why is there
rain? I'm afraid that I don't understand it."
"You must open yourself up to the rain and what it has to
say. You must accept the change that the rain will bring
about," the ocean stated.
"I'll give it a try," said the rock. After the rock was willing to
give of itself, -the rain also began to shape the rock. Sometimes
the shaping from the ocean and the rain would cause pain. The
rock accepted the pain and continued to grow. As the years
passed, the rock, the rain, and the ocean all became one.
I kept the column short this week so that I could throw in
some thanks. I would like to thank the Bethel community for
reading and responding. I would like to give special thanks to
my Father (heavenly & earthly), Dona Amann, Mark Boyer,
Alvera Mickelson, Duane Anderson, Steve Goodwin, Eric
Peterson, Craig S. Johnson, Dan R. Miller, Larry Jacobs, the
secretaries at the office, Bruce Pearson, and my Mother. You
were all very helpful. I would also like to give an extra special
thanks to Julie Ann Elsholtz. I couldn't have done it without
you.
P.S. One last note for those of you who will be continuing
your scholastic studies here at Bethel. Don't try to do it on your
own.
Finals Schedule May 16-19
Class time M-W-F T-Th
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8:30-10:30
C—Wednesday
8:30-10:30
9:10-10:10 B—Tuesday
8:30-10:30
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11:10-12:00 D—Thursday
8:30-10:30
12:10-1:10 E—Monday
12:00-2:00
12:10-1:45
G—Wednesday
12:00-2:00
1:20-2:20 F—Tuesday
12:00-2:00 1:55-3:30
H—Thursday
12:00-2:00
2:30-3:30 I—Tuesday
3:30-5:30
3:40-4:30 J—Monday
3:30-5:30
4:30-6:00 K—Monday
3:30-5:30
7:00- 9:00 L—Wednesday
3:30-5:30
M—Thursday
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Bethel status badge: don't leave home without it
by Todd Erickson
This winter I finally became
part of the "in" crowd here at
Bethel, which I have been try-ing
to do for some time now.
Maybe I should explain....
When you are attending a
college or university in Min-nesota,
such as Bethel, you
must be able to adapt to the
definitely abnormal moods of
the weather, especially dur-ing
the winter. It gets rather
cold when December and Jan-uary
roll around here in the
Great North, so you have to
become an avid coffee, tea, or
hot chocolate consumer to
...the true symbol
of respect, admir-ation
and social
acceptance.
keep your body in a continu-ous
state of warmth.
The students who have be-come
conditioned in this way,
and who are part of the "in"
crowd, are the ones who own,
and are never seen without,
their own mugs.
Yes, the true symbol of re-spect,
admiration and social
acceptance for any Bethelite
is having your own mug. It
can be used for early-morning
java, a late-night Swiss Miss
specialty, or just for showing
off to those unlucky peons
who are without one.
A mug can be a work of art,
shaped and glazed to perfec-tion,
or it can be a K-Mart
"Blue Light Special" with a
picture of Paul Bunyan or
Calvin Griffith on the side.
As long as it can hold coffee
and has a handle, it's okay.
Mugs come in a variety of
shapes, sizes and colors, usu-ally
reflecting the personality
of the owner._ Some have a
tall, noble shape, intricately
detailed with Renaissance
stylings, while others are con-temporary
models, construct-ed
from polyurethane fiber-glass
and decorated with col-ors
you will never find in a
rainbow.
There are a few different
ways to display a mug. A
favorite of profs here at Beth-el
is the "mug" display rack,"
which hangs conveniently on
a wall and can hold up to
seven or eight mugs, hardly
any of which ever see use.
Probably the most popular
method, though, for anyone
owning a mug is the simple
procedure of carrying it with
you wherever you go. This
way, whether it is being used
or not, it is always for con-vincing
someone of your im-perial
social status.
But back to my story. I was
not always part of the "in"
crowd here. I was not aware
of it at the time, but that posi-tion
was attained by owning
and using a personal mug.
By the time my junior year
arrived, I was sure that drink-ing
coffee or or tea would
make me important in the
eyes of all of Bethel. This was
just after I had learned to like
tea, and I knew that the coffee
shop and the cafeteria both-served
hot tea, so the oppor-tunities
were certainly there.
But when the first snow-flakes
started to float to the
ground, and the air had be-come
noticeably cooler, there
I was, drinking tea most every-day
(out of school mugs and
those styrofoam excuses—for-cups)
and yet I was not being
flocked by members of the
"in" crowd at all. I was hardly
being flocked by anyone.
It was late in January, in
the midst of my tea-drinking
depression, when I began to
notice that many members of
the "in" crowd filled up and
drank their coffee and tea
down at Doc's Corner, and
that these people were very
respected down there, by fac-ulty
and students alike.
Naturally, I assumed get-ting
tea at Doc's would assure
me a spot in the annals of
Bethel social life (along with
Paul Otto, John Zdrazil and
other dignitaries). So I began
to get tea there most every
day, in those little styrofoam
cups that deposit tiny white
styrofoam flakes all over your
tongue.
But that still was not chang-ing
my level of acceptance,
and I became very despond-ent,
refusing to even play
video games for awhile (I was
in a bad way).
Soon after that, though, my
luck changed. I noticed that
many of the "in" students and
faculty, at school were not
only drinking coffee and tea,
but they were drinking it out
of their own personal mugs.
That was it! I had finally
found the key to all my prob-lems.
When I got back to my
apartment that evening, I ran
to my room and frantically
dug out of my box of things
that I had brought but never
unpacked when I moved in
the previous fall. I knew that
somewhere in there was my
graduation gift from my cou-sin
Mark: my very own mug! I
had never used it before, but
now I just had to find it. I
needed to be "in" with the
crowd.
Then, under my favorite
grape jelly saved from my
freshman year success!
Since then I have hardly
ever been seen at school with-out
it. I fill it with tea and take
it to class in,the morning, and
just carry it with me through-out
the day, for prestige pur-poses
of course. Now, too, I
can relate to the rest of the
"in" crowd at Bethel, at least
as long as my mug holds out.
And for those of you who
are in the same situation I
once was in, and long to be-come
part of "in" crowd as I
now am, there are some great
Smurf and Pac-Man plastic
mugs on sale at Target this
week. Just say "Charge it" and
flash your Bethel I.D.
dancing, from page 1
Bethel and what I know for
myself," he said.
This agreement to live by
Bethel's standards even
though one might not agree
with the lifestyle statement
was voiced as a concern by
many.
"I think kids should live by
it even if they don't like it,"
said Art Lewis, professor of
Old Testament.
"I knew in advance that I
was going to dance, and that
others were as well," said Pete
Hedberg, another of the stu-dents
who was dancing. "I
looked on it as an expression
of honesty."
Hedberg said there was not
a group decision to dance, but
that it was a number of peo-ple
who regularly dance. "The
prospect of dancing on cam-pus
in public seemed attrac-tive
to people," he said.
"I see no honesty there,"
said Hedberg of students who
want to dance but do not
because they have signed a
statement.
"Dancing can be perverted,
as anything can be," Hedberg
said. He said dancing can be a
beautiful expression of joy.
"Yesterday I was honest as I
could be. It was a rare exper-ience
in that I felt community
for once. I saw people take
initiative and stand up for
what they believe."
He said he does not feel that
surveys and dialogue have
gotten anywhere. "This was
an attempt to raise the con-sciousness
to who we are."
People have the right to
disobey if they know they
have to face the discipline of
their actions, Hedberg said.
"This was a mild form of civil
disobedience."
the dancing ended when
Retts came up to address the
crowd. "I was going out on a
string," said Retts, "I didn't
know what kind of response
I'd get."
He said that word came to
him that people were dancing
and after thinking about it he
decided to go out and talk to
the group. "I wasn't trying to
put anyone down. I just asked
them to stop and think about
what they were doing."
Retts said he asked for re-spect
as he respected the stu-dents.
"I tried to be as open,
candid, and honest as I possi-ble
could. I felt like there was
some good dialogue. This open
ed some doors with the admin-istration
and students," he
said.
Retts said in an interview
that it often seems like his
office, student development,
is the only department work-ing
on keeping the lifestyle.
"It's hard for me knowing that
there are students and faculty
who disagree with the life-style
and that there are stu-dents
and people who work
for Bethel who don't keep the
lifestyle." He said he wishes
Bethel would be more sup-portive
of what student devel-opment
is doing.
"I have a lot of respect for
the things he said," said Woot-ten.
"There was a problem
and he recognized it," she said.
"I had images of the adminis-tration
being obnoxious."
"Charlie Retts was open and
honest from his perspective
in asking us to stop and in
speaking in front of the stu-dents,"
said Hedberg.
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"It became apparent I was
either going to have to get
them to quit dancing or leave,"
said Greg Hamann, director
of residence life for manage-ment
who was at the concert.
He said he left because
he did not think he could get
the students to stop and be-cause
others higher above him.
did not do anything to stop it.
"I was disappointed that
people feel they can so blat-antly
igngre the values of the
community and also that it
took this for the administra-tion
to consider the issue."
Hamann said he had heard
there was going to be a dance
and that he feels it was an
effective use of civil disobe-dience.
Kathy Sanderson said she
was upset by the incident.
"People have signed a state-ment
and agreed to abide by
it. If they don't agreed," she
said," they should say some-thing.
They haven't done any-thing
to find out how to
change the rule." She said she
can see the problem with what
is written and that she knows
it's not a biblical statement.
"If they want to dance,"
said Mark Boyer, "let them go
to a school where they can
dance. He said it was irres-ponsible
and disrespectful to
make the administration re-spond
that way.
Daryl Morrissey reiterated
the idea that students were
being dishonest in their com-mitment
to Bethel. "Ultimate-ly
we have to deal with God;
he looks at lying as a sin
when we are not true to our
word," he said. Students say
they won't do it and then they
do. There's nothing honest in
that."
"I don't think students
would opt for an open expres-sion
this is contrary to our
lifestyle if the students feel
they have a voice," said Ha-mann.
"A tension was raised and
dealt with," said Hedberg.
"Hopefully that will be an
educative process."
Charlie Retts fields questions from students at the Rock-a-Mole
concert. Copeland/photo
"Sheltered" was the impression Hamline freshmen Jennifer Thomp-son
and Ann Leagjeld had of Bethel's environment.
Marilyn Johnson and Lisa Riley of St. Thomas firmly asserted their
knowledge of Bethel by asking, "It's by Northwestern, isn't it?"
Bernards/photo
Don't miss its
Coeval
This week's second section
Two of our neighbors to the south, Jon Thielke and Gary Gisslason,
said, "Bethel is a little bit rowdier, but there are always a few bad
apples." Bernards/photo
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your
Bethel Women's Choir
Sunday, May 15, 6 p.m.
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may 13, 1983 the Clarion, page 5
Fellow St. Paul students offer opinion of Bethel
by Neal Bernards
Classes have ended for
another year and finals are
staring you in the face. The
last thing you want to read is
another boring hard news
story about budget cuts or
curriculum revision, and
that's the last thing I want to
write about. So join me, if you
will, on a journey down Snell-ing
to see what people have to
say at other colleges.
In a word association game,
mention of St. Cloud State
brings to mind "party school."
Talk about Carleton and every-one
thinks, "tough school."
What do others think about
our little world in the hills of
Arden?
First, let's travel to Ham-line,
home of the Pied Pipers,
and question their students.
"I think of a religious school
and a church of Willmar with
the same name," said Jennifer
Thompson.
Her cohort and classmate
Ann Leagjeld also replied,
"Over-protected is the word
that comes to mind. I'm a
Christian but I feel they're not
living in the real world. In a
Christian community there's
not much of a challenge to
y,our faith, everything is laid
out for you."
Opposite that sentiment
came a comment from Dan
Gray that became a common
one during a day. "I tend to
think of a college with a
strong affiliation and a beau-
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they have a good soccer team."
Well, maybe people at St.
Thomas would have more of
a concrete perception I rea-soned.
"I don't know much
about it," said Gary Gawor-ski.
"I guess it's a Lutheran
school." So much for that
theory.
However, Bruce Downey of
St. Thomas offered more of
an, answer after some prod-ding.
"They balie 'some good
football players, but we seem
to handle them pretty well."
At 240 pounds, Downey him-self
could handle anybody
pretty well.
A pair of St. Thomas wom-en
seemed to be enjoying a
personal conversation near
the corner of a building, but I
interrupted anyway. "A beau-tiful
campus, a Christian at-mosphere,
that's about all I
think of," said Marilyn John-son.
Her friend Lisa Riley was
surprised to discover that my
fellow cub reporter, Pam Sun-deen,
was going to graduate
with a business major. "Does
Bethel have normal majors?"
she queried. There went any
illusions of hearing about
academic excellence.
After having been to the
"secular schools," I decided to
balance the issues by visiting
our fellow Christian college,
Northwestern. Relieving my
naivete, I found a rivalry and
a hint of animosity toward
Bethel. Rumor has it that their
defeat of Bethel in men's bas-ketball
will go down in North-western
annals as one of the
greatest achievements.
Despite pleas to feel free to
say whatever they wished,
Kelly Krieger and Michele
Penn said only nice things
about Bethel. "We just picture
it as being down the road on a
beautiful campus. We think
of competition, as rivals in
sports, but not necessarily a
bad rivalry."
Tom Thielke and Gary Giss-lason
added their feelings on
the subject. "There's an an-tagonism
between Bethel and
Northwestern, but I think it's
an excellent school. It's a lot
more expensive, and the food
is supposed to be good." That
comment may be shocking,
but not as much as the next
one. "People in my Bible study
say Bethel's a little liberal in
"Is that the place where you have
to take vows and stuff? I think
that's silly," said Patrick Jones.
Bernards/photo
its theology." Bethel? Liberal?
Bethel's public image is posi-tive
and fairly accurate. And
after visiting these schools I
discovered that, despite my
complaining, Bethel isn't such
a bad place.
tiful campus. I have a few
friends that go there."
Surprisingly, many also as-sociate
Bethel with a good
soccer program. "I know about
their soccer reputation," said
Art Casserberg of Hamline.
"It's a name that I don't like to
hear during the season."
After being enlightened, I
traveled farther down Snell-ing
to Macalester College.
There I met Barb Johnson,
Lucinda Atkins, and Patrick
Jones basking in the sun on
this warm spring day. "Don't
think of anything when I hear
the name Bethel," came their
general consensus. "I think of
a church Bible school, and
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Values In
Conflict
by Neal Bernards
On Monday, May 9, the inevitable happened at Bethel Col-lege;
in a fit of exuberance and protest over certain aspects of
the lifestyle statement, students danced publicly. No action
taken during the dancing could be construed as immoral, but
merely as an outpouring of joy on a warm spring day and a
release of tensions caused by impending finals.
The music of Rock-a-Mole took hold of many students' feet
and propelled them out into the Kresge Courtyard under the
watchful eyes of some administrators. Though Rock-a-Mole
had no intentions of instigating the incident, many of their
songs contained lyrics about dancing. Rock music and dancing
have always gone hand in hand. One seems hardly possible
without the other.
A sense of rebellion brewed within students for a long time,
becoming only a matter of opportunity before something hap-pened.
As Peter Hedberg said, almost half of the students had
broken lifestyle by dancing at one time or another. This was
only an honest expression of the way they felt.
As inevitable as the dancing was, so was the appearance of
Charlie Retts or some token of the administration. For Bethel
to let an action like that go on would have been antithetical.
Retts impressed the crowd with his responsible handling of a
touchy situation, making no quality judgments and fielding
student's questions with sincerity.
Retts admirably explained the reasoning behind lifestyle
rules in a manner many had never been told before. Students
usually hear that dancing is part of a larger scene involving
alcohol and sexual stimulation, but the idea that Bethel is
trying to create an alternative way of life is more logically
appealing. Few students are willing to argue that a campus
wrought with the problems of drugs and alcohol is a better
academic environment than our present setting.
One negative aspect was the hostile reaction of some stu-dents
to the earnest questions of others. For the problem to be
solved both sides must be willing to listen.
With an issue as basic to the lifestyle as this, it is too easy to
become emotionally upset. Cool heads need to prevail. Even
during this short exchange of ideas between students and
administration heated words and barbed comments flew
through the crowd. An issue like this should not divide the
school but unite it in trying to discover a compromise accepta-ble
to the majority.
The afternoon was not without its lighter moments how-ever.
Shouts of "Let's hear some Evie," and "Dancing today,
pregnancy tomorrow," could be heard above the dull roar of
Rock-a-Mole.
Administrators may have been surprised by the large
numbers (up to 50 at some points) that joined the festivities,
but an even greater number danced secretly in their hearts and
minds. Many, like myself, wanted to let all inhibitions go, but
felt too much was at stake to risk it on one act of protest. I
admire those students who displayed their feelings and got the
administration to react as a result.
However, the attitude of "You're a senior (or are going to
transfer) what do you have to lose? They can't kick you out,"
disappointed me. Students should not dance merely to rebel,
but to prove a point and work for future improvement. The
idea is not to snub your nose at the institution the moment you
leave, but to try and change matters while attending.
Despite Bethel's annual discussion of lifestyle, nothing seems
to come from it. This dance became necessary to show student
concern over hypocritical lives they are forced to lead by the
imposition of such rules.
It's been said before, but communication between adminis-tration
and students needs to open up. An occurrence like this
forces student opinion to be taken seriously. However, stu-dents
must keep one thing in mind; we agreed to certain rules-when
coming here, and no one forces us to stay.
The question becomes; can we compromise without deterior-ating
Bethel's unique atmosphere?
-- I
editorial staff
upper left and right Lynnette Monter
and Neal Bernards check the typeset
articles for errors.
center: Ginger Hope, JoAnn Watkins,
and Paul Davis put together the head-lines
and layout.
lower left: Don Copeland submits proof
sheets so photos can be chosen.
lower center: John Clark takes charge of
the sports section.
lower right: Pam Sundeen organizes the
advertising for this week's Clarion.
It began this year with the first stories
due Monday, Sept. 6. The year ends with
this copy in your PO. But the process which
produces a Clarion each Friday is not that
simple. It is continual chain.
Take this issue as an example. Ideas were
formally written down at a staff meeting on
Friday, April 29. Writers got their assign-ments
that day, squeezed interviews and
time to write into their class schedules, and
turned in the articles on Friday, May 6.
Sports stories written during the weekend
are turned in before 8 a.m., Monday, May 9,
copyread and taken with all the articles to
be typeset in columns.
The marathon layout session began Tues-day,
May 10 at 6 p.m. Part of the staff reads
the copy to check for typos and other mis-takes.
Other members of the staff begin
deciding what stories will go where and
how the pages will be designed. The photo-graphers
are busy working to develop the
last photos they have taken during the
week.
After five to six hours the last photo cap-tions
and headlines are written. The galleys
with everything laid out as it will appear
when printed are taken back to the typeset-ters.
There, -corrections are made and the
layout is.keylined.
Thursday morning, May 12, the staff
members carpool to the typesetters. A final
check is made to see if corrections were
made and that there are not any problems
with the layout. At 5:30 that day a runner
from the staff picks up the galley sheets
from the typesetters and delivers them to
the printers, a 32-mile round trip.
This morning, Friday, the paper was actu-ally
printed on the newsprint. After it is del-ivered
to the post office the staff is busy
again stuffing one in each PO box.
If it was one of 28 typical Fridays during
the year, stories would be due for the follow-ing
issue and the idea meeting would begin
the issue for two weeks later. Instead, next
year's staff members are beginning to plan
next year's first issue.
gallery Raspberry Monday, a student art exhibit, features work done by
. students since Raspberry Monday last May. The exhibit runs through exhibit May 21 in the Eugene Johnson Gallery of Art.
may 13, 1983 the Clarion
Faculty changes not
to influence class size
by Neal Bernards
Student fears of overcrowd-ed
classrooms because of bud-get
cuts are unfounded, ac-cording
to Dwight Jessup, vice
president and dean of college.
Though some departing facul-ty
positions will not be filled,
other positions will be created
to maintain the same number
of faculty.
Though many part-time
positions have been cut, Jes-sup
sees no adverse affect to
the curriculum from it. "Take
a look at registration; there's
not a whole lot of difference
in the package from this year
to last." In terms of full-time
faculty, Bethel seems to fair
well. "We will cut no full-time
faculty," said Jessup, "but a
few vacancies created by res-ignations
and sabbaticals will
not be replaced in full. The
net effect will not be a tre-mendous
loss or gain."
The losses in some areas
will be countered by gains in
others. New positions are
planned for nursing, compu-ter
science, and art. The nurs-ing
department will add four
or five positions in its first
year of a full-term program,
while computer science will
add one, and the art depart-ment
will hire an art historian.
"We planned to implement
these new programs all along.
We can't just abandon them
while they're still growing,"
said Jessup.
Despite this shift of em-phasis
on different academic
departments, the student/fac-ulty
ratio will not suffer. The
ratio often indicates the qual-ity
of the school. "If anything,
class size may be smaller next
year. Certain classes may be
large, but overall they'll tend
to be small," said Jessup. "It's
all kind of a guessing game
because of enrollment. You
can never really know that."
Jessup pointed to other col-leges
and universities, such
as the U of M, that have enroll-ment
problems. "Our problem
is not as severe as other cam-puses,
but it could be in the
future. In one sense I'm happy
not to have to cut faculty
further, but then you feel bad
to have to cut at all."
General staff will also feel
the pain of declining enrol-lment.
"They will also be
slightly affected," said Jessup.
"It'll reflect the same cuts as
the faculty."
When they started on the
budget for next year, admin-istrators
faced a $1.1 million
deficit. Specific changes made
in the budget will come out
next month in the line-by-line
analysis. "We've been able to
'put the budget in the black for
next year," said Jessup. "It
was tough, but we just kept
working at it."
The dean's office makes
most of the decisions concern-ing
personnel hiring, but the
faculty leadership also has in-put.
For the overall process,
the academic coordinating
council, made up of a faculty
moderator and divisional co-ordinators,
has a powerful in-fluence.
"The president can say no
to any plan," said Jessup, "but
the committee's advice is
taken very seriously."
savings, from page 2
"The plan just isn't accep-table
to most of the higher
education community be-cause,
although the interest
earned on the savings would
not be taxed, the contribu-tions
would be fully taxed.
That's just not enough incen-tive
for most people," says
Dennis Martin with the Na-tional
Association of Student
Financial Aid Advisors.
Reagan's ESA would allow
annual contributions of up to
$1000 per child, and the mon-ey
could be used only towards
tuition, room and board.
But accounts could only be
opened for children for use
between the ages of 18 and
26," explains Charlie Saund-ers,
legislative director for the
American Council on Educa-tion
(ACE).
"And the program cuts off
at families whose income is
over $50,000 to $60,000 a
year," he adds.
"That not only cuts off the
people who would most likely
be able to save, but it elimin-ates
many older students who
are going back at school. The
range of people it would bene-fit
is very narrow."
Thus, most higher, educa-tion
officials are waiting for a
hybrid ESA that would offer
more incentives for parents—
and students themselves—es-pecially
since, once the pro-gram
is in place, it could be
used as a bargaining chip to
reduce traditional financial
aid programs.
"We and the rest of the
higher education community
support the general concept
of the ESA, as long as it in no
way is construed as replacing
other forms of financial aid,"
sais Kathy Ozer, legislative
director for the U.S. Student
Association (USSA), a Wash-ington,
D.C.-based student
lifestyle, from page 1
munity value," said Hamann.
He pointed out the fact that
the 200-300 people watching
did nothing to stop the danc-ing.
"No one took responsi-bility:
students, faculty or ad-ministration.
"Obviously a school needs
to reflect upon and review its
standards, including how they
are being interpreted and how
they're being followed," said
Jessup. "Given Bethel's corn-mitment
to being a Christian
learning community, it is pro-bably
important from time to
time to make a reasonable
study in an orderly way of
who we are and what we
stand for, even in terms of
behavioral expectations."
"A lot of students love Beth-lobbying
group.
Kansas Senator Robert
Dole, for one, has proposed an
ESA for the last several years.
It would allow patents to
write off contributions as well
as dividends on the account.
And at least five other ver-sions
of the ESA—one would
allow people to withdraw mon-ey
for new home purchases as
well as for education ex-penses—
have come before
Congress in the last several
years, says a spokeswoman
with the House Ways and
Means Committee.
"There certainly have been
more generous educational
tax-incentive plans proposed,"
notes ACE's Saunders. "And
if nothing else, perhaps Rea-gan's
proposal will generate
some discussion on the sub-ject."
"We might even see a viable
proposal get somewhere in
the next few years," he specu-lates.
"But not this fiscal year."
el the way it is," stated Retts.
"I've heard a lot more peo-ple
than I expected say they
want the lifestyle to stay the
way it is," Sanderson said.
She said she feels those who
disagree are more vocal.
Both Jessup and President
George Brushaber said that
earlier this year the Board of
Regents and the administra-tion
began an evaluation of
the lifestyle. Jessup said the
reexamination of the ques-tions
will be continued.
"The issue is whether you
live within them, not whether
they are your personal values.
Maybe we can agree on dis-tinctives
that we all believe
in," suggested Hamann.
page 10 the Clarion sports may 13, 1983
Clarion salutes Bethel's top-notch men...
Editor's note: Assigning an achieve-ment
award to one person is a diffi-cult
task when having to choose
among many qualified people. In past
years the Clarion has, through voting
by coaches, selected man and woman
athlete as the Bethel College "Athlete
of the Year". Due to both a poor voter
turnout and too many fine athletes
the Clarion offers this year an "Ath-letes
of the Year" feature in recogni-tion
of the fine performances of these
athletes. Unfortunately, many ath-letes
will be excluded and we at the
Clarion offer congratulations to those
unnamed who played a part in these
athletes' success.
by John Clark
Finding a place to start is
almost as hard as narrowing
down the list of athletes for
an Athletes of the Year story.
Mark Johnson
Perhaps beginning with the
team that has had the most
success over the past years is
an appropriate starting point.
In the last two years the
Bethel soccer team has won
the district and finished sec-ond
in the district finals.
Those placings are due in no
small part to the play of some
outstanding senior players.
- Mark Johnson has led the
MIAC in scoring the past two
seasons, has been named to
the all-conference team three
times and the all-district team
twice, and all-area team (Min-nesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois,
Iowa) twice. Bobby Clark has
been on the all-conference,
all-district, all-area teams
twice and All-American Hon-orable
Mention team once.
Steve Figini has been named
to the all-conference team the
past two seasons as well.
These players were key in
putting Bethel on the soccer
map the past two seasons
including the 1981 season
where the team finished with a
sterling 15-2-1 record and the
district championship.
Jim Miller only spent two
years at Bethel but he made
those two seasons count. Mill-er,
a linebacker on the foot-ball
team, was named to the
all-conference team both sea-sons
and led the defense in
tackles. Bryan Johnson has
one more year left as a Royal
but has already put his name
in the record books. Johnson
set single game and season
Jason Velgersdyk
receiving records at his tight-end
position.
Jon Erickson left his mark
on Bethel (as well as on some
opposing players) with his
hard hitting style of hockey.
Erickson, a senior, and Scott
Prigge, a junior, were mem-bers
of the all-conference team
this season. Both players were
members of the 1981-82 team
that finished fifth in the na-tion.
It's easy to draw attention
when you are 6-8 but Jason
Velgersdyk earned notice
through his play in the four
years he was at Bethel. Vel-gersdyk
made the all-confer-ence
team three straight years
and the all-district squad the
past two years. -
Whether it was on the court
or the course Billy Lawson
was an all-conference perform-er.
In basketball Lawson led
the league in assists and in
golf he placed fifth in the
MIAC tournament despite im-posing
a two-stroke penalty
on himself for inadvertently
hitting the wrong ball. Law-son
and Velgersdyk were part
of the reason Bethel managed
to make post-season play this
year.
Three Bethel wrestlers went
to the national tournament
this past season. Tim Kemp,
Jim Krier and Ben McEachern
qualified for the tourney held
in Minot, N.D. although only
Kemp was the only one of the
trio to advance past their first
match.
On the baseball diamond
Dave Fauth benefits from
being a standout pitcher and
hitter. As one of the confer-ence's
top hitters he knows
what to do when he's pitching
and when batting he knows
what goes through the oppos-ing
pitcher's mind. It's no sur-prise
he leads Bethel in both
hitting and pitching.
In cross country running
Tom Plocker was an Academ-ic
All-American as well as a
Jon Erickson
consistent performer. On the
track Plocker is better able to
use his half miler's speed to
qualify for the national in-door
meet the past three years.
He is only one-tenth of a sec-ond
from going to the outdoor
meet.
Jimmy Miller
Royal racers complete busy and successful week
by Rich Whybrew
Last week was a busy one
for the men's track team as it
ran an all-corners meet at Man-k
at o May 3, then split up for
two meets at Moorhead State
and Gustavus May 7. And in
the frantic rush to qualify
individuals for today and
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tomorrow's conference champ-ionships,
strange and wond-rous
things happened.
Among the wondrous were
the performances of Tom Plock-er
and Layne LaFrombois.
Plocker won both 800 meter
races he ran during the week,
taking the Mankato two-lap-per
in 1:53.94, and the Moor-head
race in 1:53.03. His Moor-head
race was timed automa-tically,
and the conversion to
manual time (1:52.8) is only a
tenth of a second away from
the NAIA national qualifying
standard.
LaFrombois is also very
close to qualifying for nation-als
in both the 100 and 200
meter dashes as a result of his
Moorhead races. He had fin-ished
fourth in the 100 and
third in the 200 at Mankato,
but at Moorhead he was sec-ond
in the 100 and fifth in the
200, with personal bests in
both races. LaFrombois' times
of 10.9 and 21.98 are roughly
a tenth of a second away from
the qualifying standards for
both races.
Steinar Engebretsen added
a little wonder of his own in
the triple jump at Mankato
and Moorhead. He won the
event at Mankato with a jump
of 44'10" and tacked on four
more inches at Moorhead, fin-ishing
third.
The strange occurred when
half the team traveled through
flooded southern Minnesota
to Gustavus. They were un-aware
that one of the casual-ties
of the flooding happened
to be Gustavus' track. Gusta-vus
had tried to notify Bethel
that the meet was cancelled,
but couldn't get through. "That
must have been why we heard
the phone ringing in coach
Whittaker's office when we
were leaving," said assistant
coach John Skelly. No one
had a key for the locked office
door.
Skelly made some frantic
phone calls from Gustavus to
see if he could locate another
meet, but was unsuccessful.
The team loaded up and head-ed
back home, but not before
Walt Twetten, Scott Zeidler
and Rich Whybrew were pho-tographed
in the sidewalk
dash event to fill a Gustavus
reporter'S assignment for
some pictures of the "track
meet."
Oh, well, at least the team
got to see the Jolly Green
Giant in Le Seuer.
Skelly did manage to ar-range
a meet at Macalester,
which will have been run by
the time the Clarion goes to
press. Whittaker and Skelly
hope the extra•meet• will give
them members who have not
qualified for conference a
chance to make it.
As for the conference meet,
Whittaker is looking forward
to it. "Last year we only had
guys in the 100, 200, and 800
meters for running events,"
he said. "This year we have
runners in everything but the
steeple-chase."
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The team will end its sea-son
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season is over as far as con-ference
is concerned," says
Currie, "so we thought we'd
have a little fun and finish
with this tournament."
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may 13, 1983 sports, events page , 1
With fewer women's sports
there weren't as many Ath-letes
of the Year on the worn-en's
side as the men. That,
however, doesn't mean there
was any lack of quality.
Finding All-American ath-letes
in one school isn't an
easy thing to do. Finding two
on the same team, as the cross
country running team did, is
quite a feat.
Linda Channer and Wendy
Norberg gave Bethel one of
the better 1-2 combinations in
the country. Until the national
meet the pair were rarely ever
Linda Channer
out of the top five placers in
the competition.
At nationals Channer placed
12th to earn All-American hon-ors
and Norberg was 23rd to
earn the same award. Al-though
Norberg graduated at
the semester, Channer, a sopho-pleted
its finest season ever
and just missed making the
MIAC championship game.
Much of the way Bethel per-formed
was due to its all-conference
players Gracia
Dahlgren and Pam Madsen.
Dahlgren was a two-way
performer for the Royals as a
hitter and a setter while Mad-son
was the player Bethel
went to when it needed a
point. Although Dahlgren fin-ished
her final year of corn-peting,
Madsen, a junior and
a two-time all-conference selec-tion,
will be back for Bethel.
been Bethel's number-one ten-nis
player since she started
has one more year left in
which to try to capture the
title she narrowly missed.
Corinne Meyer has been
standout on the softball team
and teams with another mem-ber
of the team Kathy Stel-lema.
Stellema was made her
mark more on the racquetball
court, however, than on the
softball diamond. Stellema
just finished second in the
state tournament and third at
a national collegiate tourney.
back, from page 12
school record performance of
two years ago.
Penny Marshall also won
two events at Macalester,
throwing the shot put 37'91/4"
and the discus a personal best
of 115'101/2" for her victories.
Pam Becker was second in the
discus with a throw of
103'81/2", while teammate Terri
Pietz threw a personal best of
78'1" in the same event.
Three more Bethel runners
had personal bests at the meet
in the 200 meter dash. Kim
Laird ran 29.93 for a personal
best and a spot in the confer-ence
meet, and Laurie Casey
and Deb Goodwin were not
far behind with personal bests
of their own.
Book says she is looking for
many good individual perfor-mances
from her team at the
conference meet. "They're real
excited," she said. "I just hope
everybody peaks just right."
and women athletes
What women lack in quantity they make up in quality
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aravio nohIei •o„ more, continues to perform
brilliantly on the track break-ing
and rebreaking the school
records.
The volleyball team corn-tennis,
from page 12
play and took fourth at num-ber
two singles. According to
Coach Vonda Bjorklund, John-son
played some of her best
tennis ever at the tournament.
"I was really pleased. I knew
she could do well. I would say
on Friday evening she played
the best I've ever seen her
play. She really came through
for us," said Bjorklund.
After a 7-5 record this year,
the team hopes to be even
stronger next year. Bjorklund
Sue Duehn
Youth and excitement were
the key words for the basket-ball
team. Bethel had no sen-iors
on the squad and the
Royal's playful exuberance on
the court marked its style of
play.
The hoopsters had two play-ers
named to the all-confer-ence
team as Kim Christen-son
and Karen Almeroth re-ceived
the honor. Strangely
enough, neither of the two
was the team's most valuable
player as Sue Duehn and her
pesky defense earned her the
MVP award.
Kathy Lee just missed win-ning
the conference tennis
championship by one set los-ing
in the finals. Lee, who has
seemed quite optimistic about
next year's prospects, "Eve-ryone
but Sharon will be back.
Of course anytime you lose
softball, from page 12
St. Paul, winning the games
9-4 and losing the second 8-3.
Pam Mens pitched the first
game and Johnson the second,
but Currie seemed to be more
pleased with the team's of-fense.
"We hit much better in this
doubleheader with Desi Heald
AwIr.kte ,
Paul Driver lashes out at a pitch during a recent Royal game. Clark/photo
Becky Rash fires a pitch to a Gusty at bat file/photo
Rain results in
missing track meet
page 12 the Clarion sports may 13, 1983
I
Bethel baseball squad finishes week strongly
Good pitching, hitting help Royals snap seven-game losing streak after slow start
by John Clark
After a slow start at the
opening of the week the Bethel
baseball team came on to win
its last three games including
a MIAC sweep of Macalester
where the Royals bats came
to life and hit four home runs
in the doubleheader.
On May 2 the Royals took
on the league-leading Augs-burg
Auggies. Although coach
Neal Dutton suspected that
the Auggies might be "ripe"
for the picking they weren't
going to be plucked by the
Royals. Bethel fell by a 9-2
score in the first game in
which Dave Fauth poked a
home run. Game two went
only five innings as Augsburg
won by the 10-run rule while
no-hitting Bethel.
Bethel's losing streak went
to seven games when the Uni-versity
of Minnesota-Morris
came to town and took the
first game on May 5, 5-2 with
Fauth hitting another home
run in the loss. Without much
to lose Dutton started Dave
Marquardt for the first time
this season in the second con-test.
Marquardt responded well
as he threw a four-hitter and
snapped Bethel's losing streak
with a 2-1 triumph.
"Dave looked like a million
bucks out there," said a beam-ing
Dutton. "He was just mow-ing
them down."
Bethel continued to play
well as it took on Macalester
on May 9. The Royal hitters
rapped out 14 hits in the first
game and scored a 11-6 vic-tory.
John Boich made his first
hit of the year a big one as he
homered in the second inning
and Lewie Schultz followed
up with a two-run HR in the
fourth. Fauth got the victory
giving up only two earned
runs. Offensively Fauth did
his job as he had two hits and
scored five runs.
Macalester came back in
the second game to take a 5-4
lead despite two-run homers
by Jeff Eklund and Steve
Sheedlo. Bethel, however,
came up with three runs in
the sixth inning and Randy
Karlberg picked up the win in
relief of Eddie Sullivan. `Black innings' are
softballers downfall by Rich Whybrew
"We play teams evenly
every game, but we always
have one bad inning that costs
us the game," says softball
coach Paul Currie. "Gustavus,
the second-place team in the
conference, was really im-pressed
with the way our
ladies played, but they still
beat us because of one bad
inning in each game."
Such was the plight of the
Bethel softball team in half of
its schedule last week, a dou-bleheader
against Gustavus,
May 2, which the Royals lost
3-0 and 3-1.
In the first game the "black
inning" was the first, when
Gustavus scored three runs
on one hit and a couple Bethel
mistakes. Chris Johnson shut
the Gusties down for the rest
of the game, but her own team
was unable to help her out
with some runs.
The "black inning" of the
second game was the last one
in a ten-inning marathon
match. The teams were tied at
one apiece until two Bethel
errors handed Gustavus two
runs and the game.
Bethel played much better
ball two days later in the
doubleheader with Concordia-softball,
see page 11
by Rich Whybrew
Spring rain and snow have
claimed many a sporting event
this season, but rain did not
affect the women's track team
at all until May 7, when the
monsoon weather flooded Gus-tavus'
cinder track.
"We had a great breakfast,"
said head coach Cindy Book
when asked what the team
did after reaching Gustavus,
only to be told the meet was
cancelled.
Bethel did manage to get a
meet in the Tuesday before
the Gustavus trip, a dual with
Macalester. Jenny Burgess
won two events there in prep-aration
for the conference
meet today and tomorrow,
May 13 and 14. She won the
100 meter hurdles while team-mate
Laurie Staurseth fin-ished
second, then ran the 400
meter hurdles for the first
time in two years. Her win-ning
time of 68.89 was only
half a second slower than her
track, see page 11
The women's tennis team
finished off the most success-ful
season in their history last
week with a loss to Macales-ter
and a second place and a
fourth place in the individu-als
at the conference tourna-ment. .
Against Macalester the
team was beaten 8-1 by a
surprisingly tough Mac squad.
Royal number one Kathy Lee
won a tough three-set match
for Bethel's only point. Accord-ing
to number six singles play-er
Anne Stewart, "I don't think
we were playing our best at
that match. They (the match-es)
were so close that I think
we should have won more of
them. Mac was really tough—
we were surprised. We
thought they'd be easier than
they were. They turned out to
be a pretty good team."
At the conference tourna-ment,
Lee finally got her pow-erful
game together and came
in second. She narrowly
missed first place as she
pushed the defending cham-pion
to three tough sets in the
final.
Sharon Johnson also came
through with some superb
tennis, see page 11
First
eludes
Lee by John Lilleberg
Inside
The envelope
please, and the
winner is...
Who will be Bethel's ath-lete
of the year for both
men and women. With
so many good athletes
to choose from the deci-sion
wasn't an easy one.
Page 10 & 11.
Racers go own way
with split results
The men's track team split
up and while one group
performed well, the other
ran into a little unexpect-ed
trouble. Page 1 1 .

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Students gathered in Kresge Courtyard to watch and dance to the music of Rock-a-Mole
Copeland/photo
A sculpture by Kent Ott received damage at an outdoor senior art
exhibition. Woodward/photo
Students, administrators
call for lifestyle talks
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vol. 58, no. 29 3900 bethel dr., st. paul, mn 55112 may 13, 1983
Tandals victimize artists' work
by Lynnette Monter building. "They ruined my
senior show," Steinbach said
Three outdoor sculptures of the vandals.
exhibited for the senior art Kent Ott, the other student
exhibition were vandalized on whose exhibit suffered dam-the
weekend of April 22. This age, said, "More than the ob-exhibition
is a requirement —jects were destroyed; there is
for graduation. The equival- more behind the sculpture
ent of the destruction of the than the material."
art sculptures was that of Ott's sculpture, a three-di-tearing
up a senior thesis mensional piece that changed
paper or destroying a chem- almost every day, was located
ist's experiment. "It's very between the sidewalk to the
similar to sabatoge of a term seminary and Lake Valentine.
paper," said artist Ken Stein- The vandals apparently used
bach. a knife to destroy the piece
and then dragged the wooden
"The vandalism destroyed pieces to Nelson dorm. "It
four years of my work," Stein- was very valuable to me be-bach
said. His steel sculptures cause it was a new form of art
were destroyed after four long to myself," said Ott. "It was
years of production. They not public property—the ar-were
located behind the AC tist is still there," he said.
Tom Toperzer, associate
professor of art, said Paul
Drake, director of auxiliary
services, is in charge of com-pensation.
He will handle all
the insurance problems.
In the future, the art depart-ment
plans to use the Clarion,
other publicity standards and
possibly a chapel service to
educate the Bethel commun-ity
before any works of art
are exposed to the public,
Toperzer said.
The vandalism of art van-dalizes
the artist, he said, and
the destruction was likely the
result of a group who did not
understand the piece. "Wheth-er
you like it or understand it
is irrelevant; it is personal
property and should not be
destroyed."
Protest, frivolity generate conflict
by JoAnn Watkins
"It was a nice spring day
(May 9), a good band, a lot of
music, and the pressures of
the last two weeks of school,"
said Charlie Retts, dean of
men. Forty to fifty students
were dancing in Kresge Court-yard.
"I was wondering what I
would do," said Jerry Manus,
member of the band Rock-a-
Mole. He said the band start-ed
their third song when peo-ple
began to dance. "We just
kept playing. I didn't want to
quit before our show was
over," Manus said. Though he
said he did not know what
would happen, he said he
knew people had been talking
about plans to dance.
"I talked to some people
before that afternoon, and I
knew they were planning to
dance," said Ellen Wootten,
one of the students who was
dancing. "After a while it was
just kind of spontaneous."
"What happened was an un-fortunate
display of inappro-priate
behavior on the part of
all involved," said Steve Good-win,
student association presi-dent.
He explained what hap-pened
in terms of pressures
building up and the dancing
providing a way to "blow off
some steam."
"What I did was wrong,"
said Goodwin. "I do apologize
for it. I was not setting a good
example and I should have
been. Bethel's values are arti-ficial
to me for the four years
I'm conforming my life to
them. There's a conflict be-tween
what I agree to for
dancing, see page 4
by joAnn Watkins
Bethel has always had a life-style
standard. "Lifestyle stan-dards
are one important way
by which any Christian insti-tution
expresses its distinc-tive
educational program,"
said Dean Dwight Jessup, at
the chapel service on May 10.
"They constitute one very
legitimate element by which a
college establishes its own
identity," Jessup said. "We
must live with integrity and
honesty in references to Beth-el's
stated lifestyle guidelines
to which we are committed."
After the "public dancing
incident" on May 9, students
expressed opinions which re-flected
the idea that the life-style
standards are dated and
need to be examined.
"I think there needs to be
more dialogue about that life-style
and why it's there," said
Charlie Retts, dean of men.
"I wish this would wake up
the community to see the prob-lems
with attitutes," said
Mark Boyer. "It depends on
whether the administration
wants to put God before the
almighty dollar."
"I believe the administra-tion
has been looking at the
issue," said Greg Hamann,
director of residence life for
management. "It takes time to
change and it's not good to
change things the first year of
a new presidency."
"The safest thing to do is
not change and sometimes peo-ple
need to be pushed," said
Hamann.
"We need to be careful how
we react," Kathy Sanderson
said. There is a distinction
betWeen what we are sup-posed
to stand for and what
we actually stand for." She
said she wished there was not
a difference between the two.
"I think something needs to
be done within the system
that we can support whole-heartedly,"
said Sanderson.
"It's sad we don't have stand-ards
that people who are doing
the enforcing can stand be-hind."
"The bottom line," said
Retts, "is that there is a lot of
misunderstanding about life-style
and the administration
that can be helped through
communication."
"The complaint is real," he
said. "What are we really
going to support?"
"It's very possible that the
idea of dancing is not a corn-lifestyle,
see page 9
College's diversity
brings new experience
The last editorial. So many thoughts cross my mind.
Another year draws to a close. For many of us it is a time to
say good-bye to Bethel. It is saying good-bye to people we
may not see again. There is the uncertainty of the future.
And there is a reflection of what the time we have spent at
this place called Bethel has meant.
There is not a simple answer to what the semester, year or
years have meant. Bethel is something different to each of
us. And we each bring something of ourselves to Bethel.
As an incoming freshman four years ago I could never
have guessed the experiences in store for me. I quickly
learned that everyone did not have the same views as I did.
My "Christian" views at times even conflicted with those of
my professors. There is diversity of religious beliefs, family
background, economic levels, political views, level of matur-ity,
reason for coming to this college, and moral standards. I
was smitten, but I learned a great deal from those around
me.
I soon realized that I would not like it if we were all car-bon
copies. We need to have different values and goals.
The future lies ahead with something different for each of
us. For some it holds more schooling. For others it is the job
market. Still others will find themselves travelling. We must
take our own dreams. Accept responsibility for our deci-sions.
Follow the course where ever t leads.
Through our experiences we grow -and from our relations
with those who have had different experiences we grow still
more. Diversity is not something that needs to be remolded
for a uniform individual. We are a diverse people. We need
to accept that fact and learn how to grow with one another
through that diversity.
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'T MEM 1M THE STUDENTS 1-thVE
FINALLY CAUciiT CU SAT THEY ARE cAPABLE
OF CHANGING THIS SCHOOL.
JoAnn Watkins/editor
Paul Davis/associate editor
Don Copeland/photography editor
Ginger Hope/copy editor
John Clark/sports editor
Neal Bernards/editorial assistant
Lynnerre Monter/editoriai assistant
Porn Sundeen/business manager
Tammy Gregersen/ad soles
Brian S. Anderson/graphic editor
Barry Rinehart/cartoonist
Janet Ewing/columnist
Marty Stanchfield/columnist
John Ullebergisports writer
Rich Whybrew/sports writer
Don Woodward/photographer
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the Clarion, opinions, newsbriefs may 13, 1983
Graduation festivities begin
at 10:15 Sunday morning, May
22. President George Brush-aber
will bring the Baccalau-reate
message in the Robert-son
P.E. Center.
Commencement exercises
start at 3 p.m., also in the
gym. The Commencement
speaker for the class of '83 is
Dr. Robert Mounce, president
of Whitworth College in Spok-ane,
Washington.
Mounce takes the theme of
his address from I Peter 4:11-
"By His strength....for His
glory."
New Testament scholar and
author as well as educator,
Mounce taught at Bethel from
1958- 67; for nine of those
years he chaired the depart-ment
of biblical studies here.
He has also served as mis-sionary
pilot in Guatemala.
Dr. Robert Mounce
Following Commencement
an outdoor reception is sched-uled
for 5 p.m. on the campus
lawn.
****
"Poor Man, Rich Man"—a
multi-media one-man show
based on the life of St. Francis
of Assisi—will have its Twin
Cities premiere performances
at Bethel on May 19-20. Pari-sian
Michel Orphelin, an in-ternationally
acclaimed drama-tist,
incorporates mime and
monologue in presenting a St.
Francis who poses a chal-lenge
to our world today. Cur-tain
time is 7:30 p.m. in the
To the Clarion readers:
It seems to surface over and
over again each spring term—
the destruction of art pieces
on campus. Each time I am
deeply disturbed that it hap-pens
here. It may not always
be a deliberate enraged at-tempt
to discredit the artist. It
may simply be an adolescent
frustration at the end of long
Minnesota winters. Maybe we
need to haul an old car onto
campus and provide sledge-hammers
for those who need
to work out frustrations. But
the disturbing fact remains
that in the absence of an old
wreck to pound, someone at-tacks
a work born out of the
imagination and creative pro-cess
of some Bethel commun-ity
member.
It is a sickening travesty in
a "Christian community."
Where, more than in a place
which calls itself Christian,
should the individual imagi-
Fine /kits Theatre. Tickets are
$6 for general admission and
$2 for student rush 15 min-utes
prior to the performan-ces;
call 297-9313 for reserva-tions.
****
nation be celebrated and af-firmed
by us all? Each formed
expression is evidence of that
person's uniqueness and her/-
his endowment of creative ca-pacities
by the Creator Him-self.
Where, more than here,
should we be able to accept
differences and newness of
life (as each piece is a new
creation born out of the mind
and heart of the artist.) It is.so
hard to respect one another?
To praise God for varieties of
vision? To learn about unfam-iliar
things instead of sense-lessly
destroying them out of
fear?
Even if the act of destruc-tion
grows out of some juve-nile
spring frustration, let's
realize what shocking and an-ti-
Christian forms it takes—
here where we should rightly
be celebrating the act of crea-tion.
Barbara Glenn
Assistant Professor in Art
Community
thanked
for support
Editor's note:
This letter, received by Dean Jess-up,
is forwarded to the Clarion for
publication as the message is for the
community. Michelle (Shelley) Bak-ker,
a freshman student, was injured
in an automobile accident at Thanks-giving
and has been hospitalized
since that time.
Our family would like to ex-press
our sincere thanks to
the administration, faculty,
and students of Bethel Col-lege
for all the love and con-cern
you have shown us since
Shelley's accident last fall.
We greatly appreciate all the
prayers that have been offered
on our behalf.
When we were looking for a
college for Shelley we were
interested in a Christian col-lege
but needed one that of-fered
a nursing program. We
were very glad when we dis-covered
that Bethel had what
we wanted. Shelley was hap-py
at Bethel the few months
she was there. We are still
glad she was able to go there
as she was part of a loving,
caring community of beauti-ful
young people, and she
made many good friends. Her
roommates at Arden Hills
West and some other students
have been very faithful in vis-iting
her when she was at
Hennepin County and also
now at Gillette. We felt that
God had led us to Bethel and
our experiences since then
prove to us that it was the
right decision.
We don't know what the
future holds for Shelley but
we are still praying for a good
recovery. We have certainly
learned to rely and lean on the
Lord for the strength we need
each day. It has been a long
hard winter and an experience
we will never forget. She is
making great progress so far.
She is able to talk, remembers
most of the past, and is now
better able to relate to the
present which is so impor-tant.
Right now she is having
trouble with making good judg-ments
and I understand that
that is a common problem.
For months she was unable to
move her right arm or leg but
both are improving slowly.
We are able to bring her home
on weekends which she en-joys
so much. She is very anx-ious
to walk again but for
now has a hard time with
balance. She has a cheerful
attitude and is working hard
at her therapy.
Thank you again for every-thing.
Sincerely,
Mr. & Mrs. Dick W. Bakker
Vandals' destruction
a sickening travesty
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by Neal Bernards
"Oh yuck, these are Deb-bie's
hot dogs from that party
she had three months ago, I'm
not gonna touch them."
"Our kitchen floor hasn't
mopped all year, why do they
make us do it now?"
Sounds like this will per-vade
the Bethel campus from
* * **
"Thursday's kick-off is going
to be bigger. It's going to blow
the parents aw'ay because it's
really good," said Dave Thor-ton.
Thorton and Lorraine Heif-ner
are coordinators for Wel-come
Week 1983.
The staff of 46 plus the
coordinators have been busy
making plans for next Sep-tember.
"I'm very excited,"
said Heifner, "It's gonna be
good." They have planned a
full schedule beginning on
Thursday with helping the
students move in to a pro-gram
Monday night.
Lorraine Heffner, Dave Thorton
"I think Welcome Week gives
parents and students a more
positive outlook," said Heif-ner.
"They have activities,
something to think about
other than classes."
Both Heifner, a sophomore,
and Thorton, a junior, have
served on Welcome Week. The
coordinators are chosen by
the coordinators of the pre-vious
year.
May 18-23 as RAs and ADs
check residents out of their
dorms and apartments. The
check-out includes a list of
things that need to be cleaned
in order for students to leave
without any extra charges.
Rooms not cleaned to satis-faction
will result in charges
being added to individual ac-counts.
If no one roommate
(CPS)—President Reagan's
proposed Education Savings
Account—introduced to en-courage
parents to save for
their children's college educa-tion
and initially hailed as a
good idea by college lobby
ists—apparently is a dead is-sue
now.
The proposal is "going , no-where,
and has no chance of
ever going anywhere" in Con-gress
now, higher education
lobbyists in Washington say.
The plan would have al-lowed
people to put money
away in a special college ac-count,
and then spare them
taxes on the earnings from
the money set aside for col-lege.
"There's simply no real en-thusiastic
support for it
among higher education
groups," reports Eric Went-worth,
vice president of the
Council for the Advancement
and Support for Education.
claims responsibility the cost
will be split between them.
This also pertains to damage
done to furniture and the
rooms themselves. RAs and
ADs will be responsible for
levying fines.
"Ninety percent of the time
the amount listed on the check-out
list will be the amount
charged to the student," said
Hamann, director of resident
life. "And 70 percent of the
time there is no charge at all."
Since parts of Fountain Ter-race
and most of Silvercrest
will be rented out this sum-mer,
the apartments must be
clean enough for others to
move in. Cleaning crews check
over each room after the
school year, and any extra
costs incurred because of stu-dent
negligence will be added
to students' bills.
Students are encouraged to
check out within 24 hours of
theirlast final. Everyone must
leave by May 23, no excep-tions.
When leaving, students
must return their keys or pay
a $5 fine.
"Most people feel it offers
little incentive, and that if it
passed it could be used later
by the Reagan administration
to justify further reductions
in financial aid," he adds.
President Reagan proposed
the Education Savings Ac-count
in early February as
part of the 1983-84 higher
education budget. At that
time, rumors around Washing-ton
had it that the ESA would
essentially be a carbon copy
of the popular Individual Re-tirement
Account, which al-lows
people to write off con-tributions
to the account and
earn tax-free interest on the
money.
As it stands now, however,
the administration's ESA
would provide tax-free earn-ings,
but no tax deductions
for the amount contributed.
savings, see page 1
Education savings proposal
lacks "enthusiastic support'
may 13, 1983
the Clarion newsbriefs page 3
STAIIICN by Marty Stanchfield
The rain had no effect whatsover on the rock. The ocean, on
the other hand, had continually shaped the rock over the years.
The rock was hard and the rain could not penetrate its surface.
The rock knew the ocean well and would often times seek its
counsel. The ocean spoke to and shaped the rock. It kept
raining, but the rock was not open to the voice of the rain. One
day the rock spoke to the ocean out of confusion. "Why is there
rain? I'm afraid that I don't understand it."
"You must open yourself up to the rain and what it has to
say. You must accept the change that the rain will bring
about," the ocean stated.
"I'll give it a try," said the rock. After the rock was willing to
give of itself, -the rain also began to shape the rock. Sometimes
the shaping from the ocean and the rain would cause pain. The
rock accepted the pain and continued to grow. As the years
passed, the rock, the rain, and the ocean all became one.
I kept the column short this week so that I could throw in
some thanks. I would like to thank the Bethel community for
reading and responding. I would like to give special thanks to
my Father (heavenly & earthly), Dona Amann, Mark Boyer,
Alvera Mickelson, Duane Anderson, Steve Goodwin, Eric
Peterson, Craig S. Johnson, Dan R. Miller, Larry Jacobs, the
secretaries at the office, Bruce Pearson, and my Mother. You
were all very helpful. I would also like to give an extra special
thanks to Julie Ann Elsholtz. I couldn't have done it without
you.
P.S. One last note for those of you who will be continuing
your scholastic studies here at Bethel. Don't try to do it on your
own.
Finals Schedule May 16-19
Class time M-W-F T-Th
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8:30-10:30
C—Wednesday
8:30-10:30
9:10-10:10 B—Tuesday
8:30-10:30
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11:10-12:00 D—Thursday
8:30-10:30
12:10-1:10 E—Monday
12:00-2:00
12:10-1:45
G—Wednesday
12:00-2:00
1:20-2:20 F—Tuesday
12:00-2:00 1:55-3:30
H—Thursday
12:00-2:00
2:30-3:30 I—Tuesday
3:30-5:30
3:40-4:30 J—Monday
3:30-5:30
4:30-6:00 K—Monday
3:30-5:30
7:00- 9:00 L—Wednesday
3:30-5:30
M—Thursday
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page 4 the Clarion may 13, 1983
Bethel status badge: don't leave home without it
by Todd Erickson
This winter I finally became
part of the "in" crowd here at
Bethel, which I have been try-ing
to do for some time now.
Maybe I should explain....
When you are attending a
college or university in Min-nesota,
such as Bethel, you
must be able to adapt to the
definitely abnormal moods of
the weather, especially dur-ing
the winter. It gets rather
cold when December and Jan-uary
roll around here in the
Great North, so you have to
become an avid coffee, tea, or
hot chocolate consumer to
...the true symbol
of respect, admir-ation
and social
acceptance.
keep your body in a continu-ous
state of warmth.
The students who have be-come
conditioned in this way,
and who are part of the "in"
crowd, are the ones who own,
and are never seen without,
their own mugs.
Yes, the true symbol of re-spect,
admiration and social
acceptance for any Bethelite
is having your own mug. It
can be used for early-morning
java, a late-night Swiss Miss
specialty, or just for showing
off to those unlucky peons
who are without one.
A mug can be a work of art,
shaped and glazed to perfec-tion,
or it can be a K-Mart
"Blue Light Special" with a
picture of Paul Bunyan or
Calvin Griffith on the side.
As long as it can hold coffee
and has a handle, it's okay.
Mugs come in a variety of
shapes, sizes and colors, usu-ally
reflecting the personality
of the owner._ Some have a
tall, noble shape, intricately
detailed with Renaissance
stylings, while others are con-temporary
models, construct-ed
from polyurethane fiber-glass
and decorated with col-ors
you will never find in a
rainbow.
There are a few different
ways to display a mug. A
favorite of profs here at Beth-el
is the "mug" display rack,"
which hangs conveniently on
a wall and can hold up to
seven or eight mugs, hardly
any of which ever see use.
Probably the most popular
method, though, for anyone
owning a mug is the simple
procedure of carrying it with
you wherever you go. This
way, whether it is being used
or not, it is always for con-vincing
someone of your im-perial
social status.
But back to my story. I was
not always part of the "in"
crowd here. I was not aware
of it at the time, but that posi-tion
was attained by owning
and using a personal mug.
By the time my junior year
arrived, I was sure that drink-ing
coffee or or tea would
make me important in the
eyes of all of Bethel. This was
just after I had learned to like
tea, and I knew that the coffee
shop and the cafeteria both-served
hot tea, so the oppor-tunities
were certainly there.
But when the first snow-flakes
started to float to the
ground, and the air had be-come
noticeably cooler, there
I was, drinking tea most every-day
(out of school mugs and
those styrofoam excuses—for-cups)
and yet I was not being
flocked by members of the
"in" crowd at all. I was hardly
being flocked by anyone.
It was late in January, in
the midst of my tea-drinking
depression, when I began to
notice that many members of
the "in" crowd filled up and
drank their coffee and tea
down at Doc's Corner, and
that these people were very
respected down there, by fac-ulty
and students alike.
Naturally, I assumed get-ting
tea at Doc's would assure
me a spot in the annals of
Bethel social life (along with
Paul Otto, John Zdrazil and
other dignitaries). So I began
to get tea there most every
day, in those little styrofoam
cups that deposit tiny white
styrofoam flakes all over your
tongue.
But that still was not chang-ing
my level of acceptance,
and I became very despond-ent,
refusing to even play
video games for awhile (I was
in a bad way).
Soon after that, though, my
luck changed. I noticed that
many of the "in" students and
faculty, at school were not
only drinking coffee and tea,
but they were drinking it out
of their own personal mugs.
That was it! I had finally
found the key to all my prob-lems.
When I got back to my
apartment that evening, I ran
to my room and frantically
dug out of my box of things
that I had brought but never
unpacked when I moved in
the previous fall. I knew that
somewhere in there was my
graduation gift from my cou-sin
Mark: my very own mug! I
had never used it before, but
now I just had to find it. I
needed to be "in" with the
crowd.
Then, under my favorite
grape jelly saved from my
freshman year success!
Since then I have hardly
ever been seen at school with-out
it. I fill it with tea and take
it to class in,the morning, and
just carry it with me through-out
the day, for prestige pur-poses
of course. Now, too, I
can relate to the rest of the
"in" crowd at Bethel, at least
as long as my mug holds out.
And for those of you who
are in the same situation I
once was in, and long to be-come
part of "in" crowd as I
now am, there are some great
Smurf and Pac-Man plastic
mugs on sale at Target this
week. Just say "Charge it" and
flash your Bethel I.D.
dancing, from page 1
Bethel and what I know for
myself," he said.
This agreement to live by
Bethel's standards even
though one might not agree
with the lifestyle statement
was voiced as a concern by
many.
"I think kids should live by
it even if they don't like it,"
said Art Lewis, professor of
Old Testament.
"I knew in advance that I
was going to dance, and that
others were as well," said Pete
Hedberg, another of the stu-dents
who was dancing. "I
looked on it as an expression
of honesty."
Hedberg said there was not
a group decision to dance, but
that it was a number of peo-ple
who regularly dance. "The
prospect of dancing on cam-pus
in public seemed attrac-tive
to people," he said.
"I see no honesty there,"
said Hedberg of students who
want to dance but do not
because they have signed a
statement.
"Dancing can be perverted,
as anything can be," Hedberg
said. He said dancing can be a
beautiful expression of joy.
"Yesterday I was honest as I
could be. It was a rare exper-ience
in that I felt community
for once. I saw people take
initiative and stand up for
what they believe."
He said he does not feel that
surveys and dialogue have
gotten anywhere. "This was
an attempt to raise the con-sciousness
to who we are."
People have the right to
disobey if they know they
have to face the discipline of
their actions, Hedberg said.
"This was a mild form of civil
disobedience."
the dancing ended when
Retts came up to address the
crowd. "I was going out on a
string," said Retts, "I didn't
know what kind of response
I'd get."
He said that word came to
him that people were dancing
and after thinking about it he
decided to go out and talk to
the group. "I wasn't trying to
put anyone down. I just asked
them to stop and think about
what they were doing."
Retts said he asked for re-spect
as he respected the stu-dents.
"I tried to be as open,
candid, and honest as I possi-ble
could. I felt like there was
some good dialogue. This open
ed some doors with the admin-istration
and students," he
said.
Retts said in an interview
that it often seems like his
office, student development,
is the only department work-ing
on keeping the lifestyle.
"It's hard for me knowing that
there are students and faculty
who disagree with the life-style
and that there are stu-dents
and people who work
for Bethel who don't keep the
lifestyle." He said he wishes
Bethel would be more sup-portive
of what student devel-opment
is doing.
"I have a lot of respect for
the things he said," said Woot-ten.
"There was a problem
and he recognized it," she said.
"I had images of the adminis-tration
being obnoxious."
"Charlie Retts was open and
honest from his perspective
in asking us to stop and in
speaking in front of the stu-dents,"
said Hedberg.
"V "41
"It became apparent I was
either going to have to get
them to quit dancing or leave,"
said Greg Hamann, director
of residence life for manage-ment
who was at the concert.
He said he left because
he did not think he could get
the students to stop and be-cause
others higher above him.
did not do anything to stop it.
"I was disappointed that
people feel they can so blat-antly
igngre the values of the
community and also that it
took this for the administra-tion
to consider the issue."
Hamann said he had heard
there was going to be a dance
and that he feels it was an
effective use of civil disobe-dience.
Kathy Sanderson said she
was upset by the incident.
"People have signed a state-ment
and agreed to abide by
it. If they don't agreed," she
said," they should say some-thing.
They haven't done any-thing
to find out how to
change the rule." She said she
can see the problem with what
is written and that she knows
it's not a biblical statement.
"If they want to dance,"
said Mark Boyer, "let them go
to a school where they can
dance. He said it was irres-ponsible
and disrespectful to
make the administration re-spond
that way.
Daryl Morrissey reiterated
the idea that students were
being dishonest in their com-mitment
to Bethel. "Ultimate-ly
we have to deal with God;
he looks at lying as a sin
when we are not true to our
word," he said. Students say
they won't do it and then they
do. There's nothing honest in
that."
"I don't think students
would opt for an open expres-sion
this is contrary to our
lifestyle if the students feel
they have a voice," said Ha-mann.
"A tension was raised and
dealt with," said Hedberg.
"Hopefully that will be an
educative process."
Charlie Retts fields questions from students at the Rock-a-Mole
concert. Copeland/photo
"Sheltered" was the impression Hamline freshmen Jennifer Thomp-son
and Ann Leagjeld had of Bethel's environment.
Marilyn Johnson and Lisa Riley of St. Thomas firmly asserted their
knowledge of Bethel by asking, "It's by Northwestern, isn't it?"
Bernards/photo
Don't miss its
Coeval
This week's second section
Two of our neighbors to the south, Jon Thielke and Gary Gisslason,
said, "Bethel is a little bit rowdier, but there are always a few bad
apples." Bernards/photo
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your
Bethel Women's Choir
Sunday, May 15, 6 p.m.
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may 13, 1983 the Clarion, page 5
Fellow St. Paul students offer opinion of Bethel
by Neal Bernards
Classes have ended for
another year and finals are
staring you in the face. The
last thing you want to read is
another boring hard news
story about budget cuts or
curriculum revision, and
that's the last thing I want to
write about. So join me, if you
will, on a journey down Snell-ing
to see what people have to
say at other colleges.
In a word association game,
mention of St. Cloud State
brings to mind "party school."
Talk about Carleton and every-one
thinks, "tough school."
What do others think about
our little world in the hills of
Arden?
First, let's travel to Ham-line,
home of the Pied Pipers,
and question their students.
"I think of a religious school
and a church of Willmar with
the same name," said Jennifer
Thompson.
Her cohort and classmate
Ann Leagjeld also replied,
"Over-protected is the word
that comes to mind. I'm a
Christian but I feel they're not
living in the real world. In a
Christian community there's
not much of a challenge to
y,our faith, everything is laid
out for you."
Opposite that sentiment
came a comment from Dan
Gray that became a common
one during a day. "I tend to
think of a college with a
strong affiliation and a beau-
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Well, maybe people at St.
Thomas would have more of
a concrete perception I rea-soned.
"I don't know much
about it," said Gary Gawor-ski.
"I guess it's a Lutheran
school." So much for that
theory.
However, Bruce Downey of
St. Thomas offered more of
an, answer after some prod-ding.
"They balie 'some good
football players, but we seem
to handle them pretty well."
At 240 pounds, Downey him-self
could handle anybody
pretty well.
A pair of St. Thomas wom-en
seemed to be enjoying a
personal conversation near
the corner of a building, but I
interrupted anyway. "A beau-tiful
campus, a Christian at-mosphere,
that's about all I
think of," said Marilyn John-son.
Her friend Lisa Riley was
surprised to discover that my
fellow cub reporter, Pam Sun-deen,
was going to graduate
with a business major. "Does
Bethel have normal majors?"
she queried. There went any
illusions of hearing about
academic excellence.
After having been to the
"secular schools," I decided to
balance the issues by visiting
our fellow Christian college,
Northwestern. Relieving my
naivete, I found a rivalry and
a hint of animosity toward
Bethel. Rumor has it that their
defeat of Bethel in men's bas-ketball
will go down in North-western
annals as one of the
greatest achievements.
Despite pleas to feel free to
say whatever they wished,
Kelly Krieger and Michele
Penn said only nice things
about Bethel. "We just picture
it as being down the road on a
beautiful campus. We think
of competition, as rivals in
sports, but not necessarily a
bad rivalry."
Tom Thielke and Gary Giss-lason
added their feelings on
the subject. "There's an an-tagonism
between Bethel and
Northwestern, but I think it's
an excellent school. It's a lot
more expensive, and the food
is supposed to be good." That
comment may be shocking,
but not as much as the next
one. "People in my Bible study
say Bethel's a little liberal in
"Is that the place where you have
to take vows and stuff? I think
that's silly," said Patrick Jones.
Bernards/photo
its theology." Bethel? Liberal?
Bethel's public image is posi-tive
and fairly accurate. And
after visiting these schools I
discovered that, despite my
complaining, Bethel isn't such
a bad place.
tiful campus. I have a few
friends that go there."
Surprisingly, many also as-sociate
Bethel with a good
soccer program. "I know about
their soccer reputation," said
Art Casserberg of Hamline.
"It's a name that I don't like to
hear during the season."
After being enlightened, I
traveled farther down Snell-ing
to Macalester College.
There I met Barb Johnson,
Lucinda Atkins, and Patrick
Jones basking in the sun on
this warm spring day. "Don't
think of anything when I hear
the name Bethel," came their
general consensus. "I think of
a church Bible school, and
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Values In
Conflict
by Neal Bernards
On Monday, May 9, the inevitable happened at Bethel Col-lege;
in a fit of exuberance and protest over certain aspects of
the lifestyle statement, students danced publicly. No action
taken during the dancing could be construed as immoral, but
merely as an outpouring of joy on a warm spring day and a
release of tensions caused by impending finals.
The music of Rock-a-Mole took hold of many students' feet
and propelled them out into the Kresge Courtyard under the
watchful eyes of some administrators. Though Rock-a-Mole
had no intentions of instigating the incident, many of their
songs contained lyrics about dancing. Rock music and dancing
have always gone hand in hand. One seems hardly possible
without the other.
A sense of rebellion brewed within students for a long time,
becoming only a matter of opportunity before something hap-pened.
As Peter Hedberg said, almost half of the students had
broken lifestyle by dancing at one time or another. This was
only an honest expression of the way they felt.
As inevitable as the dancing was, so was the appearance of
Charlie Retts or some token of the administration. For Bethel
to let an action like that go on would have been antithetical.
Retts impressed the crowd with his responsible handling of a
touchy situation, making no quality judgments and fielding
student's questions with sincerity.
Retts admirably explained the reasoning behind lifestyle
rules in a manner many had never been told before. Students
usually hear that dancing is part of a larger scene involving
alcohol and sexual stimulation, but the idea that Bethel is
trying to create an alternative way of life is more logically
appealing. Few students are willing to argue that a campus
wrought with the problems of drugs and alcohol is a better
academic environment than our present setting.
One negative aspect was the hostile reaction of some stu-dents
to the earnest questions of others. For the problem to be
solved both sides must be willing to listen.
With an issue as basic to the lifestyle as this, it is too easy to
become emotionally upset. Cool heads need to prevail. Even
during this short exchange of ideas between students and
administration heated words and barbed comments flew
through the crowd. An issue like this should not divide the
school but unite it in trying to discover a compromise accepta-ble
to the majority.
The afternoon was not without its lighter moments how-ever.
Shouts of "Let's hear some Evie," and "Dancing today,
pregnancy tomorrow," could be heard above the dull roar of
Rock-a-Mole.
Administrators may have been surprised by the large
numbers (up to 50 at some points) that joined the festivities,
but an even greater number danced secretly in their hearts and
minds. Many, like myself, wanted to let all inhibitions go, but
felt too much was at stake to risk it on one act of protest. I
admire those students who displayed their feelings and got the
administration to react as a result.
However, the attitude of "You're a senior (or are going to
transfer) what do you have to lose? They can't kick you out,"
disappointed me. Students should not dance merely to rebel,
but to prove a point and work for future improvement. The
idea is not to snub your nose at the institution the moment you
leave, but to try and change matters while attending.
Despite Bethel's annual discussion of lifestyle, nothing seems
to come from it. This dance became necessary to show student
concern over hypocritical lives they are forced to lead by the
imposition of such rules.
It's been said before, but communication between adminis-tration
and students needs to open up. An occurrence like this
forces student opinion to be taken seriously. However, stu-dents
must keep one thing in mind; we agreed to certain rules-when
coming here, and no one forces us to stay.
The question becomes; can we compromise without deterior-ating
Bethel's unique atmosphere?
-- I
editorial staff
upper left and right Lynnette Monter
and Neal Bernards check the typeset
articles for errors.
center: Ginger Hope, JoAnn Watkins,
and Paul Davis put together the head-lines
and layout.
lower left: Don Copeland submits proof
sheets so photos can be chosen.
lower center: John Clark takes charge of
the sports section.
lower right: Pam Sundeen organizes the
advertising for this week's Clarion.
It began this year with the first stories
due Monday, Sept. 6. The year ends with
this copy in your PO. But the process which
produces a Clarion each Friday is not that
simple. It is continual chain.
Take this issue as an example. Ideas were
formally written down at a staff meeting on
Friday, April 29. Writers got their assign-ments
that day, squeezed interviews and
time to write into their class schedules, and
turned in the articles on Friday, May 6.
Sports stories written during the weekend
are turned in before 8 a.m., Monday, May 9,
copyread and taken with all the articles to
be typeset in columns.
The marathon layout session began Tues-day,
May 10 at 6 p.m. Part of the staff reads
the copy to check for typos and other mis-takes.
Other members of the staff begin
deciding what stories will go where and
how the pages will be designed. The photo-graphers
are busy working to develop the
last photos they have taken during the
week.
After five to six hours the last photo cap-tions
and headlines are written. The galleys
with everything laid out as it will appear
when printed are taken back to the typeset-ters.
There, -corrections are made and the
layout is.keylined.
Thursday morning, May 12, the staff
members carpool to the typesetters. A final
check is made to see if corrections were
made and that there are not any problems
with the layout. At 5:30 that day a runner
from the staff picks up the galley sheets
from the typesetters and delivers them to
the printers, a 32-mile round trip.
This morning, Friday, the paper was actu-ally
printed on the newsprint. After it is del-ivered
to the post office the staff is busy
again stuffing one in each PO box.
If it was one of 28 typical Fridays during
the year, stories would be due for the follow-ing
issue and the idea meeting would begin
the issue for two weeks later. Instead, next
year's staff members are beginning to plan
next year's first issue.
gallery Raspberry Monday, a student art exhibit, features work done by
. students since Raspberry Monday last May. The exhibit runs through exhibit May 21 in the Eugene Johnson Gallery of Art.
may 13, 1983 the Clarion
Faculty changes not
to influence class size
by Neal Bernards
Student fears of overcrowd-ed
classrooms because of bud-get
cuts are unfounded, ac-cording
to Dwight Jessup, vice
president and dean of college.
Though some departing facul-ty
positions will not be filled,
other positions will be created
to maintain the same number
of faculty.
Though many part-time
positions have been cut, Jes-sup
sees no adverse affect to
the curriculum from it. "Take
a look at registration; there's
not a whole lot of difference
in the package from this year
to last." In terms of full-time
faculty, Bethel seems to fair
well. "We will cut no full-time
faculty," said Jessup, "but a
few vacancies created by res-ignations
and sabbaticals will
not be replaced in full. The
net effect will not be a tre-mendous
loss or gain."
The losses in some areas
will be countered by gains in
others. New positions are
planned for nursing, compu-ter
science, and art. The nurs-ing
department will add four
or five positions in its first
year of a full-term program,
while computer science will
add one, and the art depart-ment
will hire an art historian.
"We planned to implement
these new programs all along.
We can't just abandon them
while they're still growing,"
said Jessup.
Despite this shift of em-phasis
on different academic
departments, the student/fac-ulty
ratio will not suffer. The
ratio often indicates the qual-ity
of the school. "If anything,
class size may be smaller next
year. Certain classes may be
large, but overall they'll tend
to be small," said Jessup. "It's
all kind of a guessing game
because of enrollment. You
can never really know that."
Jessup pointed to other col-leges
and universities, such
as the U of M, that have enroll-ment
problems. "Our problem
is not as severe as other cam-puses,
but it could be in the
future. In one sense I'm happy
not to have to cut faculty
further, but then you feel bad
to have to cut at all."
General staff will also feel
the pain of declining enrol-lment.
"They will also be
slightly affected," said Jessup.
"It'll reflect the same cuts as
the faculty."
When they started on the
budget for next year, admin-istrators
faced a $1.1 million
deficit. Specific changes made
in the budget will come out
next month in the line-by-line
analysis. "We've been able to
'put the budget in the black for
next year," said Jessup. "It
was tough, but we just kept
working at it."
The dean's office makes
most of the decisions concern-ing
personnel hiring, but the
faculty leadership also has in-put.
For the overall process,
the academic coordinating
council, made up of a faculty
moderator and divisional co-ordinators,
has a powerful in-fluence.
"The president can say no
to any plan," said Jessup, "but
the committee's advice is
taken very seriously."
savings, from page 2
"The plan just isn't accep-table
to most of the higher
education community be-cause,
although the interest
earned on the savings would
not be taxed, the contribu-tions
would be fully taxed.
That's just not enough incen-tive
for most people," says
Dennis Martin with the Na-tional
Association of Student
Financial Aid Advisors.
Reagan's ESA would allow
annual contributions of up to
$1000 per child, and the mon-ey
could be used only towards
tuition, room and board.
But accounts could only be
opened for children for use
between the ages of 18 and
26," explains Charlie Saund-ers,
legislative director for the
American Council on Educa-tion
(ACE).
"And the program cuts off
at families whose income is
over $50,000 to $60,000 a
year," he adds.
"That not only cuts off the
people who would most likely
be able to save, but it elimin-ates
many older students who
are going back at school. The
range of people it would bene-fit
is very narrow."
Thus, most higher, educa-tion
officials are waiting for a
hybrid ESA that would offer
more incentives for parents—
and students themselves—es-pecially
since, once the pro-gram
is in place, it could be
used as a bargaining chip to
reduce traditional financial
aid programs.
"We and the rest of the
higher education community
support the general concept
of the ESA, as long as it in no
way is construed as replacing
other forms of financial aid,"
sais Kathy Ozer, legislative
director for the U.S. Student
Association (USSA), a Wash-ington,
D.C.-based student
lifestyle, from page 1
munity value," said Hamann.
He pointed out the fact that
the 200-300 people watching
did nothing to stop the danc-ing.
"No one took responsi-bility:
students, faculty or ad-ministration.
"Obviously a school needs
to reflect upon and review its
standards, including how they
are being interpreted and how
they're being followed," said
Jessup. "Given Bethel's corn-mitment
to being a Christian
learning community, it is pro-bably
important from time to
time to make a reasonable
study in an orderly way of
who we are and what we
stand for, even in terms of
behavioral expectations."
"A lot of students love Beth-lobbying
group.
Kansas Senator Robert
Dole, for one, has proposed an
ESA for the last several years.
It would allow patents to
write off contributions as well
as dividends on the account.
And at least five other ver-sions
of the ESA—one would
allow people to withdraw mon-ey
for new home purchases as
well as for education ex-penses—
have come before
Congress in the last several
years, says a spokeswoman
with the House Ways and
Means Committee.
"There certainly have been
more generous educational
tax-incentive plans proposed,"
notes ACE's Saunders. "And
if nothing else, perhaps Rea-gan's
proposal will generate
some discussion on the sub-ject."
"We might even see a viable
proposal get somewhere in
the next few years," he specu-lates.
"But not this fiscal year."
el the way it is," stated Retts.
"I've heard a lot more peo-ple
than I expected say they
want the lifestyle to stay the
way it is," Sanderson said.
She said she feels those who
disagree are more vocal.
Both Jessup and President
George Brushaber said that
earlier this year the Board of
Regents and the administra-tion
began an evaluation of
the lifestyle. Jessup said the
reexamination of the ques-tions
will be continued.
"The issue is whether you
live within them, not whether
they are your personal values.
Maybe we can agree on dis-tinctives
that we all believe
in," suggested Hamann.
page 10 the Clarion sports may 13, 1983
Clarion salutes Bethel's top-notch men...
Editor's note: Assigning an achieve-ment
award to one person is a diffi-cult
task when having to choose
among many qualified people. In past
years the Clarion has, through voting
by coaches, selected man and woman
athlete as the Bethel College "Athlete
of the Year". Due to both a poor voter
turnout and too many fine athletes
the Clarion offers this year an "Ath-letes
of the Year" feature in recogni-tion
of the fine performances of these
athletes. Unfortunately, many ath-letes
will be excluded and we at the
Clarion offer congratulations to those
unnamed who played a part in these
athletes' success.
by John Clark
Finding a place to start is
almost as hard as narrowing
down the list of athletes for
an Athletes of the Year story.
Mark Johnson
Perhaps beginning with the
team that has had the most
success over the past years is
an appropriate starting point.
In the last two years the
Bethel soccer team has won
the district and finished sec-ond
in the district finals.
Those placings are due in no
small part to the play of some
outstanding senior players.
- Mark Johnson has led the
MIAC in scoring the past two
seasons, has been named to
the all-conference team three
times and the all-district team
twice, and all-area team (Min-nesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois,
Iowa) twice. Bobby Clark has
been on the all-conference,
all-district, all-area teams
twice and All-American Hon-orable
Mention team once.
Steve Figini has been named
to the all-conference team the
past two seasons as well.
These players were key in
putting Bethel on the soccer
map the past two seasons
including the 1981 season
where the team finished with a
sterling 15-2-1 record and the
district championship.
Jim Miller only spent two
years at Bethel but he made
those two seasons count. Mill-er,
a linebacker on the foot-ball
team, was named to the
all-conference team both sea-sons
and led the defense in
tackles. Bryan Johnson has
one more year left as a Royal
but has already put his name
in the record books. Johnson
set single game and season
Jason Velgersdyk
receiving records at his tight-end
position.
Jon Erickson left his mark
on Bethel (as well as on some
opposing players) with his
hard hitting style of hockey.
Erickson, a senior, and Scott
Prigge, a junior, were mem-bers
of the all-conference team
this season. Both players were
members of the 1981-82 team
that finished fifth in the na-tion.
It's easy to draw attention
when you are 6-8 but Jason
Velgersdyk earned notice
through his play in the four
years he was at Bethel. Vel-gersdyk
made the all-confer-ence
team three straight years
and the all-district squad the
past two years. -
Whether it was on the court
or the course Billy Lawson
was an all-conference perform-er.
In basketball Lawson led
the league in assists and in
golf he placed fifth in the
MIAC tournament despite im-posing
a two-stroke penalty
on himself for inadvertently
hitting the wrong ball. Law-son
and Velgersdyk were part
of the reason Bethel managed
to make post-season play this
year.
Three Bethel wrestlers went
to the national tournament
this past season. Tim Kemp,
Jim Krier and Ben McEachern
qualified for the tourney held
in Minot, N.D. although only
Kemp was the only one of the
trio to advance past their first
match.
On the baseball diamond
Dave Fauth benefits from
being a standout pitcher and
hitter. As one of the confer-ence's
top hitters he knows
what to do when he's pitching
and when batting he knows
what goes through the oppos-ing
pitcher's mind. It's no sur-prise
he leads Bethel in both
hitting and pitching.
In cross country running
Tom Plocker was an Academ-ic
All-American as well as a
Jon Erickson
consistent performer. On the
track Plocker is better able to
use his half miler's speed to
qualify for the national in-door
meet the past three years.
He is only one-tenth of a sec-ond
from going to the outdoor
meet.
Jimmy Miller
Royal racers complete busy and successful week
by Rich Whybrew
Last week was a busy one
for the men's track team as it
ran an all-corners meet at Man-k
at o May 3, then split up for
two meets at Moorhead State
and Gustavus May 7. And in
the frantic rush to qualify
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tomorrow's conference champ-ionships,
strange and wond-rous
things happened.
Among the wondrous were
the performances of Tom Plock-er
and Layne LaFrombois.
Plocker won both 800 meter
races he ran during the week,
taking the Mankato two-lap-per
in 1:53.94, and the Moor-head
race in 1:53.03. His Moor-head
race was timed automa-tically,
and the conversion to
manual time (1:52.8) is only a
tenth of a second away from
the NAIA national qualifying
standard.
LaFrombois is also very
close to qualifying for nation-als
in both the 100 and 200
meter dashes as a result of his
Moorhead races. He had fin-ished
fourth in the 100 and
third in the 200 at Mankato,
but at Moorhead he was sec-ond
in the 100 and fifth in the
200, with personal bests in
both races. LaFrombois' times
of 10.9 and 21.98 are roughly
a tenth of a second away from
the qualifying standards for
both races.
Steinar Engebretsen added
a little wonder of his own in
the triple jump at Mankato
and Moorhead. He won the
event at Mankato with a jump
of 44'10" and tacked on four
more inches at Moorhead, fin-ishing
third.
The strange occurred when
half the team traveled through
flooded southern Minnesota
to Gustavus. They were un-aware
that one of the casual-ties
of the flooding happened
to be Gustavus' track. Gusta-vus
had tried to notify Bethel
that the meet was cancelled,
but couldn't get through. "That
must have been why we heard
the phone ringing in coach
Whittaker's office when we
were leaving," said assistant
coach John Skelly. No one
had a key for the locked office
door.
Skelly made some frantic
phone calls from Gustavus to
see if he could locate another
meet, but was unsuccessful.
The team loaded up and head-ed
back home, but not before
Walt Twetten, Scott Zeidler
and Rich Whybrew were pho-tographed
in the sidewalk
dash event to fill a Gustavus
reporter'S assignment for
some pictures of the "track
meet."
Oh, well, at least the team
got to see the Jolly Green
Giant in Le Seuer.
Skelly did manage to ar-range
a meet at Macalester,
which will have been run by
the time the Clarion goes to
press. Whittaker and Skelly
hope the extra•meet• will give
them members who have not
qualified for conference a
chance to make it.
As for the conference meet,
Whittaker is looking forward
to it. "Last year we only had
guys in the 100, 200, and 800
meters for running events,"
he said. "This year we have
runners in everything but the
steeple-chase."
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The team will end its sea-son
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Currie, "so we thought we'd
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may 13, 1983 sports, events page , 1
With fewer women's sports
there weren't as many Ath-letes
of the Year on the worn-en's
side as the men. That,
however, doesn't mean there
was any lack of quality.
Finding All-American ath-letes
in one school isn't an
easy thing to do. Finding two
on the same team, as the cross
country running team did, is
quite a feat.
Linda Channer and Wendy
Norberg gave Bethel one of
the better 1-2 combinations in
the country. Until the national
meet the pair were rarely ever
Linda Channer
out of the top five placers in
the competition.
At nationals Channer placed
12th to earn All-American hon-ors
and Norberg was 23rd to
earn the same award. Al-though
Norberg graduated at
the semester, Channer, a sopho-pleted
its finest season ever
and just missed making the
MIAC championship game.
Much of the way Bethel per-formed
was due to its all-conference
players Gracia
Dahlgren and Pam Madsen.
Dahlgren was a two-way
performer for the Royals as a
hitter and a setter while Mad-son
was the player Bethel
went to when it needed a
point. Although Dahlgren fin-ished
her final year of corn-peting,
Madsen, a junior and
a two-time all-conference selec-tion,
will be back for Bethel.
been Bethel's number-one ten-nis
player since she started
has one more year left in
which to try to capture the
title she narrowly missed.
Corinne Meyer has been
standout on the softball team
and teams with another mem-ber
of the team Kathy Stel-lema.
Stellema was made her
mark more on the racquetball
court, however, than on the
softball diamond. Stellema
just finished second in the
state tournament and third at
a national collegiate tourney.
back, from page 12
school record performance of
two years ago.
Penny Marshall also won
two events at Macalester,
throwing the shot put 37'91/4"
and the discus a personal best
of 115'101/2" for her victories.
Pam Becker was second in the
discus with a throw of
103'81/2", while teammate Terri
Pietz threw a personal best of
78'1" in the same event.
Three more Bethel runners
had personal bests at the meet
in the 200 meter dash. Kim
Laird ran 29.93 for a personal
best and a spot in the confer-ence
meet, and Laurie Casey
and Deb Goodwin were not
far behind with personal bests
of their own.
Book says she is looking for
many good individual perfor-mances
from her team at the
conference meet. "They're real
excited," she said. "I just hope
everybody peaks just right."
and women athletes
What women lack in quantity they make up in quality
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aravio nohIei •o„ more, continues to perform
brilliantly on the track break-ing
and rebreaking the school
records.
The volleyball team corn-tennis,
from page 12
play and took fourth at num-ber
two singles. According to
Coach Vonda Bjorklund, John-son
played some of her best
tennis ever at the tournament.
"I was really pleased. I knew
she could do well. I would say
on Friday evening she played
the best I've ever seen her
play. She really came through
for us," said Bjorklund.
After a 7-5 record this year,
the team hopes to be even
stronger next year. Bjorklund
Sue Duehn
Youth and excitement were
the key words for the basket-ball
team. Bethel had no sen-iors
on the squad and the
Royal's playful exuberance on
the court marked its style of
play.
The hoopsters had two play-ers
named to the all-confer-ence
team as Kim Christen-son
and Karen Almeroth re-ceived
the honor. Strangely
enough, neither of the two
was the team's most valuable
player as Sue Duehn and her
pesky defense earned her the
MVP award.
Kathy Lee just missed win-ning
the conference tennis
championship by one set los-ing
in the finals. Lee, who has
seemed quite optimistic about
next year's prospects, "Eve-ryone
but Sharon will be back.
Of course anytime you lose
softball, from page 12
St. Paul, winning the games
9-4 and losing the second 8-3.
Pam Mens pitched the first
game and Johnson the second,
but Currie seemed to be more
pleased with the team's of-fense.
"We hit much better in this
doubleheader with Desi Heald
AwIr.kte ,
Paul Driver lashes out at a pitch during a recent Royal game. Clark/photo
Becky Rash fires a pitch to a Gusty at bat file/photo
Rain results in
missing track meet
page 12 the Clarion sports may 13, 1983
I
Bethel baseball squad finishes week strongly
Good pitching, hitting help Royals snap seven-game losing streak after slow start
by John Clark
After a slow start at the
opening of the week the Bethel
baseball team came on to win
its last three games including
a MIAC sweep of Macalester
where the Royals bats came
to life and hit four home runs
in the doubleheader.
On May 2 the Royals took
on the league-leading Augs-burg
Auggies. Although coach
Neal Dutton suspected that
the Auggies might be "ripe"
for the picking they weren't
going to be plucked by the
Royals. Bethel fell by a 9-2
score in the first game in
which Dave Fauth poked a
home run. Game two went
only five innings as Augsburg
won by the 10-run rule while
no-hitting Bethel.
Bethel's losing streak went
to seven games when the Uni-versity
of Minnesota-Morris
came to town and took the
first game on May 5, 5-2 with
Fauth hitting another home
run in the loss. Without much
to lose Dutton started Dave
Marquardt for the first time
this season in the second con-test.
Marquardt responded well
as he threw a four-hitter and
snapped Bethel's losing streak
with a 2-1 triumph.
"Dave looked like a million
bucks out there," said a beam-ing
Dutton. "He was just mow-ing
them down."
Bethel continued to play
well as it took on Macalester
on May 9. The Royal hitters
rapped out 14 hits in the first
game and scored a 11-6 vic-tory.
John Boich made his first
hit of the year a big one as he
homered in the second inning
and Lewie Schultz followed
up with a two-run HR in the
fourth. Fauth got the victory
giving up only two earned
runs. Offensively Fauth did
his job as he had two hits and
scored five runs.
Macalester came back in
the second game to take a 5-4
lead despite two-run homers
by Jeff Eklund and Steve
Sheedlo. Bethel, however,
came up with three runs in
the sixth inning and Randy
Karlberg picked up the win in
relief of Eddie Sullivan. `Black innings' are
softballers downfall by Rich Whybrew
"We play teams evenly
every game, but we always
have one bad inning that costs
us the game," says softball
coach Paul Currie. "Gustavus,
the second-place team in the
conference, was really im-pressed
with the way our
ladies played, but they still
beat us because of one bad
inning in each game."
Such was the plight of the
Bethel softball team in half of
its schedule last week, a dou-bleheader
against Gustavus,
May 2, which the Royals lost
3-0 and 3-1.
In the first game the "black
inning" was the first, when
Gustavus scored three runs
on one hit and a couple Bethel
mistakes. Chris Johnson shut
the Gusties down for the rest
of the game, but her own team
was unable to help her out
with some runs.
The "black inning" of the
second game was the last one
in a ten-inning marathon
match. The teams were tied at
one apiece until two Bethel
errors handed Gustavus two
runs and the game.
Bethel played much better
ball two days later in the
doubleheader with Concordia-softball,
see page 11
by Rich Whybrew
Spring rain and snow have
claimed many a sporting event
this season, but rain did not
affect the women's track team
at all until May 7, when the
monsoon weather flooded Gus-tavus'
cinder track.
"We had a great breakfast,"
said head coach Cindy Book
when asked what the team
did after reaching Gustavus,
only to be told the meet was
cancelled.
Bethel did manage to get a
meet in the Tuesday before
the Gustavus trip, a dual with
Macalester. Jenny Burgess
won two events there in prep-aration
for the conference
meet today and tomorrow,
May 13 and 14. She won the
100 meter hurdles while team-mate
Laurie Staurseth fin-ished
second, then ran the 400
meter hurdles for the first
time in two years. Her win-ning
time of 68.89 was only
half a second slower than her
track, see page 11
The women's tennis team
finished off the most success-ful
season in their history last
week with a loss to Macales-ter
and a second place and a
fourth place in the individu-als
at the conference tourna-ment. .
Against Macalester the
team was beaten 8-1 by a
surprisingly tough Mac squad.
Royal number one Kathy Lee
won a tough three-set match
for Bethel's only point. Accord-ing
to number six singles play-er
Anne Stewart, "I don't think
we were playing our best at
that match. They (the match-es)
were so close that I think
we should have won more of
them. Mac was really tough—
we were surprised. We
thought they'd be easier than
they were. They turned out to
be a pretty good team."
At the conference tourna-ment,
Lee finally got her pow-erful
game together and came
in second. She narrowly
missed first place as she
pushed the defending cham-pion
to three tough sets in the
final.
Sharon Johnson also came
through with some superb
tennis, see page 11
First
eludes
Lee by John Lilleberg
Inside
The envelope
please, and the
winner is...
Who will be Bethel's ath-lete
of the year for both
men and women. With
so many good athletes
to choose from the deci-sion
wasn't an easy one.
Page 10 & 11.
Racers go own way
with split results
The men's track team split
up and while one group
performed well, the other
ran into a little unexpect-ed
trouble. Page 1 1 .